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AUCTIONS

A NTIQUE OR MODERN (advantageous to

Exeoutors, Trustees and Private Ownars).—
Very GOOD PRICES ASSURED for Antique and
Modern Household Furniture, Silver, Jewellery.
Pictures, Books, Porcelain, etc., at the weekly
Auction Sales of PHILLIPS, 8ON & NEALE,
7, Blenheim Breet, New Bond Btreet (established
1789), (Bales of the above property oan also be
promptly arranged by private treaty.) Tel.:
Mayfair 4, Ref, W.T.L. Auction announce-
ments, Daily Telegraph every Monday, The Times

every Tuseday,
BY direction of the Right Hon. the Zari of
Halifax, K.G., and Ainsty Trust Co, The
Antique Furnishings of HIOKLETON HALL,
DONCASTER, YORKSHIRE (Doncaster 6 miles,
Barnsley 9 miles), including interesting 18th-
centary furnishings formerly at Temple Newsam,
Leeds, comprising lacquered cabinets, chests,
bureau-bookoase, seven cut-glasa- chandelters,
early fesso and carved and gilt side
tables, seta of Chippendele chairs, two Louis XV
upright secretaires, mahogany, walnut and gilt
frame mirrors, gtit frame salon furnishings, and
the general furnishings of the mansion inoluding
chins, glass, pictures, eto., which Mesers. HOLLIS

WEBS will sali by suction on the premises
ag above on Tuesday, Maroh 18, 1947, and following
days. On view Friday and Saturday, March 14
and 25, 1947, Illustrated catalogues. price 2s. 6d.
aaoh. ‘Som Mesare. Hollis & Webb, 3, Park Plane,

H HARMBR,
PHILATELIO AUCTIONEER AND VALUER
Established over 80 years

30-42, NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, W.1

will hold the following BTAMP AUCTIONS:
MARCH 117, 18.—An extensive specialised coileo-
tion of Great Britain, with (second day) fino
gollections of Argentine, Austria, Belsium,
France, Gormany, Roumania, Siam, and Turkey.
MARCH &, 2, 81, APRIL 1,-~'Tho H. Bryant”
British Hmpire Collection, offered by order of
. H. Bryant, Hsa.. of Cobham, Surrey.
Catalogues W- each.
APRIL 7, 8.—No aale.
APRIL 14, 15, 16.—Specialised collections of
Reypt and Budan, offered by order of E. Duncan
Doring, Haq, of London, a very fine British
Bmpire collection, offered by order of Lieut.-Col.
W. Lilburn, of Aberdeenshire, and associated
General properties of other owners, notubly
& collection of British West Indies.
Catalogues Od, cack sale, unless otherwlee stated,

_ post free.
W & F.C, BONHAM & SONS, Ltd. (oatablished
* 1798) hold Sales by Auction every Tuesday
and Thursday at 11 o'clock of Antique and Modern
Household Furniture. Silver Plate, Porcelain,
China, Objets d'Art, Carpets and misoollanea. at
bres ene Galleries at Knightsbridge Halls.
7 and 999-290, Knightabridge, 8.W.1. Tet:
rong 2002, 4887, 4888,

PERSONAL

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH

14, 1947

CLASSIFIED ANNOUNCEMENTS
2). per Une (Mintenum % Knee) Bow Foe 1/6

MISCELLANEOUS

HOTELS AND GUBSTS

‘LEANALL” REHABILITATION SERVICE.
De-requisitioned properties, town or coun-

try, prepared for occupation: walls and woodwork
washed or cleaned by vacuum procese; wood floors
and panelling re-surfaced and polished; carpets
and furniture oleaned.—HOUSEHOLD AND
INDUSTRIAL CLEANING CO., LTD., 22, Gros-
Yenor Gardens Mews North, &.W.1. Sloane 1080,

OGS. The Ai Dog Book ia the best and

hhandiest guide to good dog-kesping from
Duppyhood to old age. 1/8 post free,—ADVICE
BUREAU, N.C.D.L., 8, Clifford Street, W.1.
JFUEU AND SOAP SAVING. Keep hot-water

pipes soale free. Our Domestic Brick placed
dn supply tank gives 21 days’ soft water in average
house, removes scale from ayxtem. arte,
2/6, postage 8. Twelve carriage paid.—Dent. C,
UNIT, Hollingbourne, Kent,

ARMENTS expertly knitted from your own .

wool and patterns,—Further detalis on
Abplloation to Box 217,
'BRALDRY. Your Arms painted on wood.
vellum or glass, Shielé only from 25
HYLDA M. WILKINSON, 'Wakehurat,”” Cr:
leigh, Surrey,
MITATION JEWELLERY, Pearls, Paste
Brooches, Clips, eto. Also real, purchased for
ossh.—Post to the ORIENT JEWEL CO., LTD.,
7, Rowont Street, London, W.1, Offer by return.

AN Hotel of outstanding merit in this famous
Health Resort.
ROYAL PIER HOTEL,
WESTON-SUPER-MARE
Fully booked for Easter. Few vacancies before
andafter. Justabovesea, Exquisitely appointed
Central heating throughout. Most bedrooms,
double and single, have private bathrooms,
Fally Hoonsed. Tel.

BALL rNanincy AND RECESS FISHERIES,
River and Lough. Inquiries invited for rods
on reserved salmon and sea-trout fishing on
famous waters, Spring fishing commences Feb. 1.
Summer fAshing commences June. Booking
Uhrough Ballynahinch Castle, Connemara,
Ireland. Terms for rods: daily, weekly, fort-
nightly, monthly, to guests at the Castle. Details
and rates from the Management. Situated in the
midat of Connemara's most beautiful scenery, the
Castle affords every comfort, H. and c. wll bed-
rooms and several with private bath. Exoellent
catering. Fully Moensed. Weekly tariff: October
16 to February 28, 8 guineas; Maroh 1 to October
18, 10 guineas,

CoMPort, quiet, books, lovely garden, excel-
lent _food; Country Gueet House, Weald of

Kont, Fitted basins: central heating. ‘Terms:
seven guineas per week.—Apply, MRS. HOPE
HUDSON, Willesley, Cranbrook,

JEWELLERY, GOLD AND SILVER reauired by
HARRODS, LTD. Highest prices offered.
Rewistered parcels receive same attention us
personal transactions.—HARRODS, LTD., Sloane
1234, London, 8.W.1.
MArrin’s wiee
Jewellery and sliver,
deacription. Good cash prices,—156-
Btrest. W.1; 172, Regent Street, W.
Victoria Street, #.C.4
MWiarore GREENHOUSES, ali-stect_barn-
type frames, 6 ft. x 4 ft.6 in. x2 ft, high oom-
plete with glass and olips, £8 carriage paid. Can
be fitted end to end for early row orops. Electric
soil heating and irrigation fitments extra.—
FARMFTTTERS LTD., Great Missenden.
PortRairs painted from photographs, com-
pletely lifetike. Apply specimen brochure.
Reasonable charge: approval.—Box 16.
EST OF ENGLAND. Public, please remem-
ber that HRUFORD'S OF EXETER, Gold-
smiths and Silveramiths, will value or purchase
for cash Jewels and Bilver. Ancient or Madern,
by appointment. ‘Phone: Kxeter 54901.
TLUIAM OGDEN. Court Jeweller. 13, Bruton
Strest. Berkeley Square, W.1, offers expert
advice on the Buying. Selling and Valuation of
FINE JEWELS, One of the World's wreatest
Authorities, Mayfair 2611-2512.

@ buyers of high-class
Also gold of any
82, Oxford
2, Queen

CARAVAN (Romany) to be let furnished from
April 1, on Bite 800 yds. from secluded besch
00 Dornet coast, adjoining golf links. Two bunks,
hut for cooking, main water, electric light, dog
kennel. 5 ens, weekly, Banker's reference
required.Apply: P. BROWNLOW-HUGHES,
Morecombe Cottage, Morecombe Lake, Bridport.
‘Tel.; Chideock 261,
[LOVELY GEORGIAN “HOUSE in deautiful
rounds, standing back from mein Bath Road.
Converted into luxurious home from home with
club Ioence, Realdential suites, private house
staf and first-class food and detailed service our
speciality. Hotel atmosphere rigorously avoided.
-~ELOOT PARK, Kintbury, Newbury, Telephone:
Kintbury 76,
RRAckHonse ‘Trainer in Essex has room for
two or three extra horses to train: Flat or
National Hunt Rules. Will purchase genuine
@nimala for any owner desiring to start Racing.
—Communtoato Box 986.
RRermed OFFICER, Oriental Carpet Expert
tending principal London auctions, will
parohase partioular requirements for clients on
“Sse nable commission basis, References.

UMMER HOLIDAYS IN EUROPE. Ask us for

details of gonducted and unaccompanied tours

to Switeerland, France, Austria. Belgium, Hol-

and, Scandinavia, eto.—THE PARTOUT TRAVEL,

ORGANISATION, Millbrook Chambers, Hurdwick

Piace, London, N.W.1, 7

TER in Cornwall!! Warmth, comfort,

food food. Well-furnished service flate to

Jet in the beautiful Devoran Valley. From 6 gns.
—GOONVAGA, Perran-ar-Worths), Truro,

MISCELLANEOUS
Always BETTER CLEANING. Be tt sports,
business, or dresswear, parcel it by roristored
Bost for quick return (usually 48 hours).—Dry
Cleaning Dept. (0.L.1.), IVY LAUNDRY, LTD.,
Sandford Road, Aldershot.
A NIMAL PHOTOGRAPHY. Ail types of Pedi-
tee Stock and Domestic Pete, Kennels,
stable, farms, eto., viaited. Domestic pets photo-
Sraphed at their homes.—For particulars, apply:
LYLS & ORANE, Sway, Hants. Tel.: Sway 388.
AlAN MoAFEE, LTD., 38, Dover Street. Lon-
don, have # emall quantity of the following,
ready for immediate delivery: Ladies’ Brown
Jodhpur Boots, Men's Brown 4-eyelet Chukka and
Canvas Leg Newmarket Boots, Also « few strong
Bloc Oanvas Wallet Baga with sip fastener, size
27 in. long by 12 in. deep, price £2/10!-. No coupons.
LLIGON BOND LIMITED offer a delightful
range of Colonred Lambskin Rugs in self
oolours and nursery designs at various prices.—
Write, shone or oall at 21, Connaught Street,
Loadon, W.2. Paddington 6628,
CARDS for Birthdays, Parties,
tonne eta, Designed by Dienns. Samples
CUMMINS, Btationery Dept., Bt.
Sodtews ‘Road, Bridport, Dorset,
CANES (standing) cut and bought
from gurdema, vatates, parks. etc. Any
pouty, Mxpert cutters, Highest references,—
: 18, Nightingale Road, Hanwell, W.7.
OF BOND STREET will be
fo tedetve particulars of Cars of
108, New Bond Street,

NIQUE CLOCKS, tantern. Bracket, Jong
Case, otc., in perfect order.—EDWARDS,
¥.R.S.A.. M.B.HIn %, West Park Avenuo,
Roundbay, Leeds, Lists for stamp.
ANTIQUE wrought fron Entrance Gates and
Ratlinga. Garden Gates, Wali Grilles, Radia-
tor Covers, and a]] kinds of lovely wrought {ron,—
THE OLD BARN, Crowhurst Road, Lingfield,
Surrey, or telephone KEN, X77.

HARMOUTH HOUSE, CHARMOUTH, DORSET:
ia re-opening on March 1,

Cxowsoroven, x. 1

SUSSEX. THE WARREN
HOTEL, RIDING STABLES AND COUNTRY
CLUB, This gractous country house, atanding in
15 acres of grounds on the edge of Ashdown Forest,
offers every modern comfort. H. and c. all bed-
rooms, central heating throughout, and log fires,
Tennis, riding, golf, fishing, own ahoot over 700
ores. Clu licence, 7-9 guineas weekly. ‘Tol.:
Crowborough 345.
Faster and Summer Holidays in house of
greet beauty, character and comfort. Few
quests, Riding, tennts, trout fishing.—R. W.
CORBETT, LONGNOR HALL, COUNTRY CLUB,
Near Shrewabury.
ABRIEL COURT HOTEL, Stoke Gabriel. &
Devon. Beautifutly ettuated facing south on
River Dart, 3 miles from Paignton and Totnes,
A.A. and R.A.C. Licensed for guenta, Idea! for
winter residence, H, and c. in bedrooms and cen-
tral heating. Under the personal direction of the
proprietress. “Phone 208, ied
EART of New Forest. Comfortable Guest
House, good food, own farm produce. Hunt-
ing, shooting, golf, squash, Guests’ own horses at
livery, reduced winter terma.—WHITLEY RIDGE,
Brockenburst. Sgt
YME REGIS. The Buy Hote). A.A. and R.A.C.
Centre of Marine Parade. Centra) heating.
H. and c. Excellent food. Vacunctes naw
. "Phone 69,

LIVESTOCR

M2449 ure King Charies spaniel Dos Pups
$4 months, for show and companions (Blen-
hoims).-GRISTWOOD, Naish, West Camel, Yeovil
Somerset,
Qracrnania, Sir Jocelyn Lucas offers medium
and small type pedigree Puppies from £12 128.
Also few very attractive miniatures (not froaka),
a5. Export. BStud.—Apply, Manager, Imer
Kennels, Bypass, Watford, Herts, ‘Phone 9640,
Visitors met Bushey Tube,

T. BERNARDES.~-F/0. SHORTER, of Terwin _

St. Bernard Kennels, wishes to announce that
his ditch, Molino St. Carminetta (‘‘Pouch") has
recently been mated to Snowbound Travellers
Joy, that well-known winning dog. Orders now
taken for Pupptes. Also for sale, one Bitch and
one Dog (4 months old) by that magnificent
smooth dog, Daphnydene Bt. Victor. Both these
puppies are really sound epooimens and well up
to show standard, Perfectly marked and heavy-
boned. Ideal for showing.

WANTED ae

Francs EDWARDS, LTD, (founded 1855), We
ay beat prices for Libraries and Collections
of Barly Books. Speed's Atlas wanted.—83, Mary-
oone High Street, London, W.1.
Oi Bngine by Ruston, National,
“Crossley, Cash on inspection,-MACBRIDE,
Harwich, Essex.

_SITUATIONS WANTED =
OOKKEEPER-BECRETARY (edy, 3'a)
Fequires post Southern Counties, casy acctss:
coast. Estate. nursing/convaleacent home, otc.
Bxoellent all-round experience, wages, P.A.Y.E.,
venking, etc, Renident preferred but not easen-
Ox
SX-R.A.¥. Pilot, now convalescent from vuber-
culosia, seeks suitable employment. Accus-
tomed to outdoor life, well educated, adaptable
and active, Go anywhere, remoteness no object.
Box 210. :
E SERVICE MAN, aged 35, seoks post. Exp.
senior olerk, P.A.Y.E., wages, accounts, eto,
Drive car. Any position considered requiring
initiative and responsibility.—Box 900.
EXPERIENCED SECRETARY requires residen-
tial post, preferably neur country, with

fumtly where her small daughtor, aged 3, might
find companionship.

Expert. car driver. High

seeks post. Interested politics, education
and country pursuits, Cun drive cat.—Box 195.
GENTLEMAN, independent means, offers asnint

Management sporting estate in return for
Expert.

accommodation, No salary required.
training dogs and horses.—Box 211.

ANDYMAN (married, fin ohiidren) sels post.

country or coast preferred (N. England or
Nidianda), Furniture repairs, concreting, glaz-
ing. meneral woodwork repairs, Own tools. Asaist
garden. Can drive. Excellent refs. Cottage
osmential.Box 191,

EIGH HOUSE COUNTRY HOTEL, Chum:

Devon. Excellent accom. Taw Valley Estate.

Good chef. Children welcome. Dogs boarded.
Riding, tennis, swimmit From 6 gns.

LAY with experience of en
‘poat. on private estate,

assistant to land agent.

farming.—Box 196.

‘work requires
Recently forestry
Some knowledge of

‘0. 9, GRAND AVENUE, HOVE 3, SUSSEX.
First-class Hotel accommodation. Residen-
tial terms, Lift, Manageress. Hove 7586/7.

R*! ‘TIRED OFFICER avaliable for instruction in
Equitation and Managing Stables at a country
hotel ar club.—Write, Box 183.

issn TACKLE I8 SCARCE. We have more
than most. All of dependable quality. 3 yd.
oasts. Trout silkworm gut, taper, 3/8: level, 3/-;
Nylon taper, 3/-; level, 26: salmon, silkworm.
G:8, 8/8, 6/6, 10/8, 4/8, 12/8, 9/5, 18/6, 2/5, 17/6: Nylon,
8/6, Si. 5/8, 416, G/-, 3/5, 6/6, 2/5, 7/-. Bin. Osrel
dry-fly Reel, pre-war quelity, 70/-. Send for {Hlus-
trated Dook of Files, free.—OGDEN SMITHS,
62, 8t. James's Street, t ejooadlily, London,

|. Telephone: Regent 2612.
I. PAINTING. 46 in, by 66 in, (very fine frame),
"Virgin and Child" (believed to be by Biasolo),
shown at Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of
Early Venetian Paintings, London, 1813.—Offers
to HUGHES, HOOKER & CO., 2, Laurence Pount-
hey Hill, London, E.C.4, where the ploture
(together with interesting contemporary copy of
portrait (Cremona Sohool. XVI Century) at
Hampton Court, now exhibited at the Roya!
Academy) can be inapected (Monday to Friday).

station. 2,000 at

truck, carriage paid t
86/176 per 1,000; 4,000 at £6/10/- per 1.000; 8.000 at
£6/7/6 per 1,000. Prompt despatch.—Iilustrated
leaflet and details from L. GARVIN & CO,, LTD.,
Totnes, Devon.

RROLSX OFETER. | New gold super grade, “ultra
prime’ movement Wrist Watch, Latest
shape, £40, Offers.—Box 228.
OLLS ROYCE LIMOUSINE, 20/3 h.p.. for
dfsposal. First Hcensed Maroh, 1035. Mileage
about 90,000. Superb condition. £2,000, Seen
London,—-Box 200.

GPortine MAGAZINE, 1799-1856. 16 vols., not
consecutive, Some covers damaged. 3/- each,

Badminton Magezine. some with coloured illus- |

trations. 2/6 each.—Box 201,

Wrovait Tron Dinner Wagons, doubie decker,
glass table, area 64 in. by 38 in., height

6 In., mounted on castors, finished in Maytair

cream. Very attractive. Price 10 gns.—P. H. G.
BAGSHAW, Great Oakley. Kettering.

‘AVE YOU “A LITERARY BENT"? Develop

it profitably through peraonal tuition at the
LONDON SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM—the only
school under the patronage of leading newspaper
proprietors. ‘Training in Journalism, Short
Stories, Article Writing, Poetry. Radio Plays,
English Literature, Each course now offered at
REDUCED PEES. Personal corres-
Dondencs.— Write for: fre baie and bnok to:
L , Gordon Square,

College, South

Delightful postal courses.
PRINCIPAL, 10. Grimadyke ANB, Barnet, Herta.

PE LODGE HOTEL, Englefield Green. Surr
Station Egham. Telephone: Egham 197/359.
London 20 miles, Buses to Windsor, Staines, Vir-
ginia Water. quite near, Ascot miles, All rooms
fitted h. and c. and gas fires, Riding and golf in
the vicinity. Beautiful gardens, good food.—
Resident Propristress, MISS HILDA DOWNIE,
Our slogan: ‘Home our only competitor.”
REGURRIAN PRIVATH HOTEL, WATER.
GATE BAY, NEWQUAY. Facing sea, One
min. from beach and buses. Garages. H. and c.
water in all bedrooms, Late dinner, sep, tables.
Early morning tea. Excellent tablo.—Write
Proprietor for Brochure. ‘Phone: St. Mawgan 28.
DERMERS. OLD ENGLAND HOTEL,
Delightfully sheltered situation overlooking
the Lake. A world-wide reputation for first-class
Service and catering. Manageress, Mrs. Lodge.
Tel. No.:49, TRUST HOUSES LTD. Fas
yr ‘Torquay this Spring. It's nd very
beautiful. STRATHMORE HO" » one of
Torquay’s better hotels. Thoroughly modern
throughout with comfort as the keynote. Four
lounges. Lift. Cuisine of quality. Own farm.
‘Tel. : 2065 and $808,

GARDENING

(CONIFERS FOR CHARACTER. Framo your
garden with # few lovely specimens. Please
eend 24. for my catalogue—FREDERICK

STREET. Heathermead Nursery, West End,
Woking,
T.P. VELVETONS for Lawn conditioning.
* Replaces plant foods taken from ground by
repeated mowings and improves the properties of
the soll. Discourages fungus, Makes lawns like
velvet. Sold everywhere. Write for leafet.—
INTERNATIONAL TOXIN PRODUCTS LTD.,
Northwich, Ches,
HY» HEATHERS fiower freely in winter or
summer, and need no labour. Please send
24, for my catalogue.—FREDERICK STREET,
Heathermead Nursory, West End, Woking.
ASPBERRY CANES, ready now for planting.
Norfolk Giants, grown on the famous Boottish
farma in Dundee and Blairgowrie, 25 for 7/8; 50,
19/6; 300, 25/-; 500 lote upwards, 20/- per 100; 1.000
Jota, £8, Cash with order, carriage paid. Delivery
at once.--SMEDLEY C., ANGUS FRUIT FARMS,
LTD., Blairgowrie, Perthshire,
'TRAWSON GARDEN FRAMES. A few for
sale, Order early. Write for List 0.L.47.—
G.¥. STRAWBON & SON. Horley, Surrey,
FOOLMAN'S GLADIOLI. Gpecial offer of
exhibi varieties including latest intro-
14 mother corma,

4 collections, 55/-. eee oe creamy ‘white:
Lilium Tigrinum, - per dox., carriage
paid. WOOLMAN'S NUR! NURSERIES, Shirley, Birm-

GECRETARIAL port required on eatate or laree
farm (Glos., Herefordshire, Worcestershire or
Warwickshire) by ex Land Girl finishing seore-
tarial training at Easter.—Box 207.
INGLE YOUNG MAN, educated, good family,
with technical qualifications and prantical
experience in agriculture, seeks post with farm,
estate or land agent, where scope and responsi-
bility.—Box 160. % 9
ORK wanted by two capable domesticated
Women, thirties, together or neparately, in
guest house, farm, hotel, atc., West or South-
West England, or would travel. Jointly house-
work, driving, cooking, seoretartal, sewing. Good
accommodation essen! Free April, —Box_206,
Yours LADY, wel! educated, fully trained in
eli branches of horsemanship, requires post:
with private famtly to look after children's
ponies and/or one or two Hunters,—-Box 213.
‘OUNG LADY desires resident job in country
shorthand typing and willing to help care
small children. Drives 9 car.—Write. Box 108.
‘OUNG LADY, 23, requires residential position
aa private secretary. Trained shorthand-
Sypiae aoespetent: driver, Available end of March.
—Box

SITUATIONS VACANT

Kaerer. North Country preferred, good vermin
catcher essential, large disor shoot.
Suasex, to be run commercially. Excellent
cottage; terms by arrangement, No small chil-
dren owing proximity to river,—Box 192,
MASAGERESS to run private mansion in
Sootiand as Quest House, yearly from May
to October. Must be thoroughly capable with
long experience high-class hotel work and oater-
ing. Knowledge of Food Office returns, etc, Good
pay and prospects.—Box 216,
‘ARRIED Couple, chauffeur-gardener, good
cook, no children, medium-nised modern
house and garden, Smal! separate flat, furnished
or unfurnished. Two in family. Good refe.
espential.—Write first to: CATER, Silvergates,
Craigwei! Drive, Bognor Regia, Buswex.
RREquinED for @ iarge Country Mansion in
Staffordshire, a capadie House Osrpenter.
able to run private lighting.—Apply: RANTON
ESTATES COMPANY, Estate Office, Eocleshall,
Btafis.

Wants. » ‘single-handed Gardener. Kent vil-
lage. Live in, Knowledge pruning snd
rotosoythe advantageous.—Apply, with particu:
larw and references, Box 208,
‘Want, good Hise Gaadenes to6 eae ae
‘Midlands, where second gardencr and boy
also employed. Must have knowledge of frait.and
grosnhoudes, Fis beepers In reply, state
prerion experience end required.
B08 kn TERS

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=LIFE

MARCH 14, 1947

Vol. CI. No. 2617

KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY“"325

By divection ef R. Kilby, Esq.

CHILTERN H HILLS, 500 FEET UP

7 miles from miles from Berkhamsted.
A Freehold eidetial Agricultural Property.

THE FAMOUS HOME FARM, TRING

AN EXCEPTIONALLY ATTRACTIVE MODERN HOUSE
Three reception, rooms, 10 bed and dressing rooms, 3 bathrooms.
All main services. Central heatin;

Magnificent range of model farm buildings.

All brick-built and tiled and including shire and hunter stabling.
Tyings for 53 cows. 6-unit milking parlour.
Exceptionally fine tiled dairy.

6 COTTAGES, CONVENIENT PADDOCKS. IN ALL 114 ACRES
For SALE by AUCTION at an early date (unless previously sold).

Solicitors: SAMUEL J, WEAVER, Esg,, 30, Clarendon Road, Watford.
Auctioneers: Messrs. KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY. (Particulars 1/-.)

1? hours North of London

AN AGRICULTURAL AND BLOODSTOCK BREEDING
ESTABLISHMENT OF 570 ACRES

With 2 private residences (3 reception rooms, 7 bedrooms, bathroom, etc.).
Ramge of Stud buildings, including 50 loose boxes.

Farmhouse and two cottages. Convenient paddocks, good arable land.
Lake of 5 acres. 45 acres of woods.

FOR SALE FREEHOLD. PRICE £16,000
Sole Agents: Messrs. KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY. (36,624)

LEICESTERSHIRE

Nottingham-Grantham.- Leicester Triangle.
IN LOVELY UNSPOILT COUNTRY.
A first-rate Residentialand Agricultural Property.

fu MODERATE-SIZED HOUSE IN EXCELLENT ORDER

Facing South with fine views and standing in attractive gardens,
approached by a drive.

tion, 7 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, kitchen with ‘‘Esse."’ Central

besten, electric light, excellent water supply. Hunter stabling, garage
for 4, farm buildings, bungalow and 4 cottages.
Farm of about 62 acres

with modern house and buildings (Iet on 8 yearly tenancy).

The remainder comprises sound graas and arable.

ABOUT 139 ACRES FREEHOLD

FOR SALK AS A WHOLE OR WILL BE DIVIDED
Vacant Possession of House, Buildings and 67 acres.

Sele Mines Kn SHOULER & SON, Melton Mowbray,
KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY, (48,251)
te eons

20, HANOVER SQUARE, LONDON, W.1

By direction of Exory, of the late Mr. Bdmund Godward

SUSSEX 4 COU

4 miles Three Bridges and 4 miles East Grinstead.
Excellent serv'ce of trains to London in 45 minutes.

THE GRANGE, CRAWLEY DOWN

STANDING NEARLY 450 FEET UP WITH GOOD VIEWS
A residence mainly of the Georgtan period.

4 reception rooms, billiards room, conservatory, 10 bedrooms, 3 bath-
rooms, compact offices. Central heating, main electricity, water and
drainage. “Well-wooded gardens.

Garage. Three cottages and Grange lodge.

An Important Accommodation field

ABOUT 35 ACRES
Vacant Posacssion of the main residence on completion.

For SALE by AUCTION at an early date (unless previously sold).

Solicitors : Messrs. WHITE & MASON, East Grinstead.
Auctioneers: Messrs. KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY. (Particulars 1/-.)

Cotswolds

OCCUPYING A HIGH POSITION WITH GOOD VIEWS
Within 5 miles of main line station (London 2} hours)
ATTRACTIVE MODERN HOUSE WITH ANNEXE

In all 2 reception, 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. Main water and electricity.
Double garage. Danish pighouse for 200. Barn. Other outhouses.
Orchard. Woodland. About 50 acres arable. IN ALL 60 ACRES

FREEHOLD EARLY POSSESSION
NIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY. (43,363.)

SOUTH DORSET

4 miles from Weymouth. 4 miies from Dorchester.
UPWEY MANOR
A charming Country house dating from the early XVII century,

Built of local stone and surrounded by beautiful Old English
gardens and pasture 4and, bounded by the River Wey.

Lounge hall, 4 reception roorns, billiards room, 10 principal bed and
dressing rooms, 4 bathroom, 4 servants’ bedrooms. Central heating.
Companies’ electricity and water. Main drainage.

Garage. Stabling for 3 with flat over (4 rooms and bathroom),

The gardens are partly walled. Fine specimen trees, lawns, kitchen
len with Vinery and 2 greethouses, orchard and paddock.

ABOUT 9 AGRES. VACANT POSSESSION ON COMPLETION
For SALE by AUCTION at the Property Sale. » Derchester,
on Wednesday, April 16, at 3 p.m. (unless ously sold).
Solicitors: Messrs. VIRTUE, SON& CHURCHER, 19, pone 1.

Auctioneers: Messrs, HENRY DUKE & SON,
Messrs. KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLE’ (Particulars vel

448 COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 14, 1947

JACKSON-STOPS & STAFF

8, HANOVER ST., LONDON, W.1. save 3816/7
CIRENCESTER. NORTHAMPTON, LEEDS, YEOVIL, CHICHESTER, CHESTER, NEWMARKET AND DUBLIN

A COMPACT SMALL ESTATE NEAR NEWBURY
Newbury 4 miles, Andover 13 miles, London 50 miles,

TILE BARN, WOOLTON HILL

The Residence contains hail, 3 reception rooms, billiards

12 principal and & secondary bed and dressiny
5 ba’ Peete pele Tn good ‘decorative repair. Main water and

eleetniclss Central heating.
TWO LODGES, COTTAGE AND GOOD FLAT.

Stabling, garage and outbuildings. Park-like
woodland and pasture. Completety walled ‘Kichen garde

IN ALL ABOUT 56 ACRES

For Sale private treaty now or by ped at
Newbury on Thureday, May 8, 1847.

Solicitors: Mess: ARGAOVE & CO., & iddesieigh Mouse, Zeetnineter: S.w.4t,
Auctlonesers: MRCKSOM BTORS ‘a erate, 6 Hanover Street, W.1 ‘Maytair 3216-7).

GLEBELANDS, BIDBOROUGH, TEST VALLEY NEAR FAIRFORD GLOS.

KENT Ne Tecate ol COTTAGE DELIGHTFUL 17TTH-CENTURY HOUSE
2} miles, idge Wells 4 miles, 4 i in an unspoilt vi 5
Tonbridge 2} miles, Tunbridge Wells 4 miles, London 83 miles Two reception, 4 bedrooms. kitchen bat . Garage. :
FAREHOLD RESIDENCE outbuildings. To be Let (Furnished for a period of (3-5 years.
iT rder on the edge of the vilia containing: MAIN BUSUTRICITS.
Hal .« roooption rooms, sat bedrooms 4 ‘bathrooms, ABOUT } ACRE. £5,250 FREEHOLD Four reception rooms, 10 bed and dressing rooms, nursery
£o0d domestic offices. JACKSON-8STOPS of STARE sh Hanover Street, W.4 wing, 3 bathrooms, up-to-date kitchen offices.
CENTRAL HEATING. MAIN BERVICES. evieie. $5967?) ;
Gottaus,.. dapage: Outbulldlnine Saar aces areal HRATING: ) MAG McRCTMICEYY: any
IN ALL ABOUT 6 ACRES :
CHARMING GEORGIAN HOUSE Garages, Stabling. Three cottages and lodge,
Auocti Feld April 18, at The Swi “
Hoth Tudbridge Welle, at a pine’ or peivatety | Hal, 10 pedreomee._Chectale Matt. 1 paregention rooms. | chotecly furnished. Reasonable rental for responsible und

pelorefiand. Tellable tenants.

Joint Auctionsera: Mesere. BRACKETT & SON

2, 14 ACRES, FOR SALE WITH IMMEDIATE
POSSESSION

27 and 28, High Street, Tunbrid; fella (Tel.: 1483), ©
and JACKSON sTord & STAFF, 8, Hanover Street, | Agents: Mesers. JACKRON-STOPS & STAFF, Gole Agents: JACKSON-STOPS, Cirencester
t (Mayfair 22: Northarnpton, (8752) {Tel.: 3354/8).

By directions Mra. Beattie Seaman, “
EMINENTLY SUITABLE AN AN INSTITUTION, SCHOOL, HOTEL OR COUNTRY CLUB.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE—WORCESTERSHIRE BORDERS

LOT 1:
“PULL COURT ’' TEWKESBURY

A magnifloent Mansion {n very good order,
Thirty bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, 7 reception roo,

LOT 2: VALUABLE MARKET GARDEN AND
COTTAGE 2} ACRES

ELECTRICITY,

CENTRAL HEATING.

To be ‘Bold by Auction (unless previously sold
by private treaty) at the wan Hotel, Tewkesbury,
Glos., on April %, 1847, at 3 p.m.

Katate Water Supply.

Garages. (Stabling. Four cottages. (Gardena and
Grounds,

20 ACRES

WINKWORTE & CO.

4, CURZON STREET, MAYFAIR, LONDON, W.!

By direction of The Right Honourable Margaret, Countess of Kimberley.

IDEAL FOR DAILY TRAVEL TO AND FROM LONDON.
THE COTTAGE, THORPE SATCHVILLE
tles, Leicester 11 miles, In a small
ADJOINING A BERKSHIRE COMMON Om Pat ro aapes near BO. aes toa level UA aetightd ies othe wc.
Bus route nearby. Several golf links within aay reach, Ina rural area but not isolated. AN Oo ASHIONED RESIDENCE MODERNISED
A COMPLETELY MODERNISED GEORGIAN RESIDENCE + Comprising a hunting box of moderate aise with additions:

1 - Di drawing
“ g r ° . room end tirern 6 main

in first-class order 7 through:
out, ready for immediate

fe-oocupation. Pe flooring in recep.
aa Mg os ¢leo-
many
Eight bedrooms, 3 bathr: Is tricity. water A
and 4 reception pins onenat ret cei surely
First-class stabling in ‘a
Main services. Gas. yard, with 4 rooma over.
5 Two garages. Cottage.
Pleasan' is, Gi
. and abl te (eotinge “on: Lagat Se awe with
vertible), yew hedges, ket Kleen in,
ete., and pa
ro
e FoR sae PRIVATELY NOW WITH 13 ACRES.
EEHOLD. PRICE £17,500 Wi PRICE £6,500
- en y TER 8) RCRES > Or to be offered by Public Austion at a date te be announced inter.
e View by appointment thedligh Wisxworre « Co., 48, Curson Street, Mayfair, W.1. Owner's Agents: Worxworre. & Co., 48, Curzon Street, Mayfair, London, Wa

‘a.

448 COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 14, 1947

JACKSON-STOPS & STAFF

8, HANOVER ST., LONDON, W.1. save 3816/7
CIRENCESTER. NORTHAMPTON, LEEDS, YEOVIL, CHICHESTER, CHESTER, NEWMARKET AND DUBLIN

A COMPACT SMALL ESTATE NEAR NEWBURY
Newbury 4 miles, Andover 13 miles, London 50 miles,

TILE BARN, WOOLTON HILL

The Residence contains hail, 3 reception rooms, billiards

12 principal and & secondary bed and dressiny
5 ba’ Peete pele Tn good ‘decorative repair. Main water and

eleetniclss Central heating.
TWO LODGES, COTTAGE AND GOOD FLAT.

Stabling, garage and outbuildings. Park-like
woodland and pasture. Completety walled ‘Kichen garde

IN ALL ABOUT 56 ACRES

For Sale private treaty now or by ped at
Newbury on Thureday, May 8, 1847.

Solicitors: Mess: ARGAOVE & CO., & iddesieigh Mouse, Zeetnineter: S.w.4t,
Auctlonesers: MRCKSOM BTORS ‘a erate, 6 Hanover Street, W.1 ‘Maytair 3216-7).

GLEBELANDS, BIDBOROUGH, TEST VALLEY NEAR FAIRFORD GLOS.

pelorefiand. Tellable tenants.

Joint Auctionsera: Mesere. BRACKETT & SON

2, 14 ACRES, FOR SALE WITH IMMEDIATE
POSSESSION

By directions Mra. Beattie Seaman, “
EMINENTLY SUITABLE AN AN INSTITUTION, SCHOOL, HOTEL OR COUNTRY CLUB.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE—WORCESTERSHIRE BORDERS

LOT 1:
“PULL COURT ’' TEWKESBURY

A magnifloent Mansion {n very good order,
Thirty bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, 7 reception roo,

LOT 2: VALUABLE MARKET GARDEN AND
COTTAGE 2} ACRES

ELECTRICITY,

CENTRAL HEATING.

To be ‘Bold by Auction (unless previously sold
by private treaty) at the wan Hotel, Tewkesbury,
Glos., on April %, 1847, at 3 p.m.

Katate Water Supply.

Garages. (Stabling. Four cottages. (Gardena and
Grounds,

20 ACRES

WINKWORTE & CO.

4, CURZON STREET, MAYFAIR, LONDON, W.!

By direction of The Right Honourable Margaret, Countess of Kimberley.

1 - Di drawing
“ g r ° . room end tirern 6 main

in first-class order 7 through:
out, ready for immediate

‘a.

448 COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 14, 1947

JACKSON-STOPS & STAFF

8, HANOVER ST., LONDON, W.1. save 3816/7
CIRENCESTER. NORTHAMPTON, LEEDS, YEOVIL, CHICHESTER, CHESTER, NEWMARKET AND DUBLIN

A COMPACT SMALL ESTATE NEAR NEWBURY
Newbury 4 miles, Andover 13 miles, London 50 miles,

TILE BARN, WOOLTON HILL

The Residence contains hail, 3 reception rooms, billiards

12 principal and & secondary bed and dressiny
5 ba’ Peete pele Tn good ‘decorative repair. Main water and

eleetniclss Central heating.
TWO LODGES, COTTAGE AND GOOD FLAT.

Stabling, garage and outbuildings. Park-like
woodland and pasture. Completety walled ‘Kichen garde

IN ALL ABOUT 56 ACRES

For Sale private treaty now or by ped at
Newbury on Thureday, May 8, 1847.

Solicitors: Mess: ARGAOVE & CO., & iddesieigh Mouse, Zeetnineter: S.w.4t,
Auctlonesers: MRCKSOM BTORS ‘a erate, 6 Hanover Street, W.1 ‘Maytair 3216-7).

GLEBELANDS, BIDBOROUGH, TEST VALLEY NEAR FAIRFORD GLOS.

pelorefiand. Tellable tenants.

Joint Auctionsera: Mesere. BRACKETT & SON

2, 14 ACRES, FOR SALE WITH IMMEDIATE
POSSESSION

By directions Mra. Beattie Seaman, “
EMINENTLY SUITABLE AN AN INSTITUTION, SCHOOL, HOTEL OR COUNTRY CLUB.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE—WORCESTERSHIRE BORDERS

LOT 1:
“PULL COURT ’' TEWKESBURY

A magnifloent Mansion {n very good order,
Thirty bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, 7 reception roo,

LOT 2: VALUABLE MARKET GARDEN AND
COTTAGE 2} ACRES

ELECTRICITY,

CENTRAL HEATING.

To be ‘Bold by Auction (unless previously sold
by private treaty) at the wan Hotel, Tewkesbury,
Glos., on April %, 1847, at 3 p.m.

Katate Water Supply.

Garages. (Stabling. Four cottages. (Gardena and
Grounds,

20 ACRES

WINKWORTE & CO.

4, CURZON STREET, MAYFAIR, LONDON, W.!

By direction of The Right Honourable Margaret, Countess of Kimberley.

1 - Di drawing
“ g r ° . room end tirern 6 main

in first-class order 7 through:
out, ready for immediate

‘a.

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 14, 1947

NICHOLAS

Tolegramea
‘ seeped Piacy, Lendon”’

4, ALBANY COURT YARD, PICCADILLY WT: 1,STATION ROAD, READING """* “*"*"

KENT

On edge of Weald. Within 5 miles of station. 14 miles quaint old Kentish village. Close
to bua route.

EXCELLENT SMALL FREEHOLD HOLDING FOR SALE

Sttuated in # realiy vicked position. Comfortable houas, 8 reception rooms, 4 bedrooms

(with basing), bathroom, kitehen (with Aga). Main water. Good range ‘of buildings

including 2 stall atabling, large granary, Dutch bern, pig sties, garage, etc. Also

2 well-built cottages (possession Gf one can ibe obtained). The land. together with
a smuall ornamental garden, Is mostly pasture, in alt abou

‘
11 ACRES
Price to inciude most of the carpets, furnishings. ive and aead stock.

£5,750

Further particular from ‘Sole Agents, a8 above,

SURREY
Outekirts ef Guildford, Lovely position, on high ground, overlooking woodlands,
AN ATTRACTIVE, EASILY RUN, WELL DESIGNED

PROPERTY OF GREAT CHARACTER

Three reception rooma, well-planned flomestic offices, 6 bedrooms (3 hrith fitted

basina), 2 bathrooms. Main supply services. Partial central heating. Garage 8 carn.
he grounds are tastefully laid out on.2 suuth slope. In al? about

1} ACRES

, PRICE (with possession July 1947) £8,500
SUSSEX

On high ground in torely unspoilt country, within easy reach of Hastings.
FOR GALE WITH POSSESBION
(picturesque property comprising large hall, 3 reception rooms, cluakroom, kitchen
_Hsse‘cooker), o principal bedrooms, bathroom. Maln electric light. Good water eupply.
Stabling. Garages,
The property ts situated In a beautiful park, bounded by a running stream, tn all about

16 ACRES. PRICE FREEHOLD £6,000

RALPH PAY & TAYLOR

SOUTH CORNWALL. BETWEEN TRURO AND FALMOUTH
Ing lovely ettuation af natural charm and beauty overlooking a trary fie es wich ine opens wiew £0 the aoaith,
A SINQULARLY CHARMING HOUSE OF qi
QEORGIAN CHARACTER
dating back to the XVIIIth century.
Delightfully planned accommodation on 2 ficors only,

Seven bed. and dressing rooms, 3 bathrooms, hall and
8 reception rooms, compact

3, MOUNT ST.,
LONDON, W.1

ELECTRIC LIGHT. EXCELLENT WATER
SUPPLY. MODERN DRAINAGE,

Garages, stabil cottages, and oth
sabling ful oubulldings OMe

Old established gardens and grounds, rose garden,
walled kitchen garden, in al! about

q3 ACRES

FREEHOLD £15,000. EARLY POSSESSION
Perwnally inspected and confidently recommended hy the Agenta: RaLpa Pay & TayLop, aa above,

F. L. MERCER & CO.

SACKVILLE HOUSE, 40, PICCADILLY. W.1

Regent 2481

MIDDLESEX—14 MILES FROM LONDON

High-class residential district, adjarent to Green Beland and vpen country. Near Moor Park,
Stanmore and Northwood.

SURREY—NEAR WALTON HEATH GOLF COURSE

On a private estate, B00 feet above sea level, Amidst delighiful surroundinys, Oity and
West End reached in 40 minutes,

REALLY CHOICE RESIDENCE WITH A SPACIOUS

ARCHITECT DESIGNED MODERN HOUSE IN THE
INTERIOR

= GEORGIAN-QUEEN ANNE STYLE

Evonomical to maintain. Lounge hall, 2 reception rooms, 7 bedrooms, bathroom,

Beautifully appointed and in excellent goudition. Tiree tine reception rooms with
Large billiards or play room.

oak floors, 6 bedroome with fitted wash barins (h. and ¢.). dressing room or aingle
bedroom, 3,bathrooms, melds’ sitting room. Compact domestic offices.

COMPANY'S ELECTRIC LIGHT, GAS AND WATER. MAIN DBAINAGE.
CENTRAL mearncoy llonoe. MAIN ELECTRIC SIGHT. Power

Power and gar potuta throughout. Garaye,

Well laid out gardens with tennis and other{lawns,’ fowergbeds and herbaceous borders,
Chojce variety of shrubs and fruit trees.

FREEHOLD £5,500

LD poi t rooms. (Co.'s gan and water,

Detached double garage ‘with flat over. Ieautlful garden, inexpensive to maintain,

a4 ACRE, ONE ACRE.

FOR SALE FREEHOLD

Agonta: ¥. L, Muacen & Co., Sackville House, 40, Piccadilly, W.1. Tel,; Regent 2481

MAPLE & Co,, Lo.

RAKE HOLT. RAKE, Liss
On the Sussee-Honte Borders, with glorious views,
THIS EXCEPTIONALLY ATTRACTIVE MODERN
QEORGIAN STYLE RESIDENCE

Conta! fJounge hall, 3 rece! Tooms, excellent offices,
raalds” ehting “Foon, 8) Gotrooms, 3 “modern . bathrooms
{arranged in suites and most bedrooms fitted basins).

Central hoating. Companies’ electric ght and water. Modern
ne drainage, oak fioors.

Agente; F. L, Makcgr & Co., Sackville! House, 40, Piccadilly, W,1. Tel,; Regent 2481,

TOTTENHAM COURT RD. W.l
(Ruston 7000)

5, GRAPTON ST., MAYFAIR, W.L
(Regent 4088)

5 5 uffe Two 8,
pens ‘bullt gai for 8 care, Chen feur'a room. 7 pores,
, kitehen and fruit garden, orchard, woodland. ef

IN au ABOUT 7 ACRES. VACANT Possuesion
ON COMPLETION

{exospt one cottagn). .
‘To be Bold by Pubtio Auction at Winchester House, Old Bread Street, E.C.2, on wednesday, May 16 next, unless sold privately betorehand.
Auctioneers: Maria & Co., Lep., 8, Grafton Street, Mayfair, W.1*

COUN: RY LIFE—MARCH 14, 1947

HAMPTON & SONS

6, ARLINGTON STREET, ST. JAMES'’S, S.W.1

Regent SEI (15 fines) Tetecrame: “Seianiet. Picoy, Londen’'

SUSSEX—CLOSE TO LEWES AND THE DOWNS

A VERY FINE EXAMPLE OF THE GEORGIAN ERA

Drive approach. Dignified entrance hall,
charming DRAWING ROOM about
29f, Gin. x 20ft, DINING ROOM
27ft Sin, x 18%. 6in,. STUDY,
BILLIARDS BOOM 23 f%. x 207% Sin,
and well shut off dumestic offices with
servants’ altting room, ete.

Pertod stalroase, 12 bedrooms, 5 batt ff
tooms, 3 staff bedrooms, Garages and
Stabling. Fiat. Two cottages.

LOVELY OLD WALLED GARDENS
‘Orchard and meadowland.

Ags cooker, Main services. Central heating. 117 ACRRS .

In faultiess order throughout. FOR SALE FREEHOLD

8.W..

Joint Sole Agents; ROWLAND GUORKINGK & CO., High Street, Lewes, and HAMPTON & SONS, 6, Arlington Stroet, St. James’
By order of the Tenant for Life.
KENT oo “REDHILL, SURREY

in rural country between Ashford and Hythe. IDEAL HOUSE FOR THE cITy OK WEST END MAN

SMALL DIGNIFIED GEORGIAN STYLE RESIDENCE Occupying slevated porition
on southern slope.

In excellent order through-
out. Large hall, 3 rocep-
tlon, 8 bedrooms, 3 bath-
rooms, excellent offices.
Matin water and electricity.

(0.53, Mata

LINKFIELD LANE

Freehold Realdence with
modern fittings containing:
Hall, 3 reception eos
conservatory, 7

Central heating. Ample dressing room, 2 bathe, and
power plat ace ae
Picturesque cottage with
6 py Three pining ae tures on neatly
‘Useful outbuildings. Weil 2} ACRES
matured grounds. For Sate privatel: uotion on Maroh 98 next,
IN ALL 17 ACRES. PRICE FREEHOLD £12,000 sp retiore shen EEA SONS Sh ee ee z safe

alt Buildings,
Be James, oP,

Redhill. Surrey, or HAMPTON & SONS, 6, Arlington St
iM. 0061) & BISHOP'S STORTFORD (Tel. 243)

4pply HAMPTON & SONS, 6, Arlington Street, St. James's, §.W.1. (K.25,955)
BRANCH OFFICES: WIMBLEDON COMMON, 8.W.19 (Te

CLASSIFIED PROPERTIES

2/- per line. (Mfin, 8 lines.) Bow fee 1/6.

WANTED

FOR SALE

IMINOHAM WITH
WANWIORGHIRE PREFERRED. To
rent |, or would buy reasonably,

Country Bouse, 6 bed,, 3-4 reoep., gar-

den, paddock.—Cot. ‘Kuwxspy, 42, Island

Bank, Inverness.

BOURNEMOUTH within 40 miles, Un-
furnfahed House or Sungafow, 6 rooms,
ion. Rent or Tonse, 3-4 yeara.—-Bagry,

9, Oaborue Road, Komford.

Lod ANGLIA. Wanted to purchase,

mixed soll Estate, 760-1,000 acres,
with gordaidenes contatning 13-16 bedrooms,
wha park Barly jon’ of house; land
be let. to £40, p00. jo Pplicant

ae "P. wn Wooenek: Pa Son, Ipawich.

HERTFOROSH IRE. Good price offered
for attractive and thoroughly weill-

Serdar Ss

owes in Herts, or Herts/Bucks
it bedrooms, two or more
Main electricity esmentlal. Good

property must be in first-
ler ith good garden and land from
10-100 actes, One or more cottages desirable.
—Box A.0,16686, BARSON CLARKS, 57/61.
Mortimer Street, W.1.

ERTFORDSHIRE OR EBSEX,
OH IR

REAGONABLE REACH LONDON.
Country House, 3 reception, 4 to 7 bedrooms,
and ora Gestisman's Farm up to
300_screa.—! 188.

HoknEmouTH (NEAR). Modernised
ont Boskdeave clove to Bsuadstous Hinks end Su.
Jo; jove! ewe over rbour,
igi eas fitted. basins, 2 bat
Hy “reception rooms, cloakroom, kitchen with
Aga. Central heating. Main ‘drainage. All
companies’ supplies, aladed garden with
pines. 3 scree, £7,700 freeh Possession.
—Sole Agents: Rumssy & aes Broad-
stone, Dorset.
CONSTANT INE BAY, SORNWALL
Gott Course ‘Sanh aie i am sand hha
utes lovely sai Ms
ry easily run sd, ea House. 4a Tedrooma

ee a di r ‘bullets
"001 sun
use, Hot ature boiler as
oloctele % water heaters, All modern
snares
Golds including approximately # acre, £4,000,
a
Immediate. possens ra Apply, Ison habe
Ken, Near Maidstone, |
otely up t6 aster rooently redecorated, mat
letely up to recently rated
Iniexa xoellent order t: ut, Rous ree lon
e rooms, 8 boars hronghe or repion
ce: §, Rint Garden, orchard.
a p neres. ‘acan’
gion on complotion. "7 freehold ed

com:

Town WITHIN THREE HOURS, but
not ln an industrial area. Residential and
ese Ratate of 400-1,000 acres wanted.

Ouse with about 11 with modern

orks.

The house contains entrance 5

rooms, 10 bedrogms, 2 rooms, sinple

Dathi and servants’ le

Gardener's house and ample outaide offices.

Electric and central

farisn, ean ‘be rented in
Neighbourhood. Eminently suitable for

Private residence, 5 or

Staller pe rit lculars and orders

, Bj -
Seuat Rath Sizeet, Glasgow, or 82,
Castle a

Nore WALKS. 5 miles ne Wrexham.
An eee ous

stantial he sute
8 tncpal pdrooms
principa: ate

tral Stabling ‘ab

Walled-in iftchen garden and orchard. Early
lon. Apart from reaidentia) amenities
perty would make a echolastic

or institational centre,

Borders: Modern detached House, and
len. Two entertaining rooms, ‘bedrooms,
Possession in 4 or 6 months. —H. V, KIToHING,

ae ae
ndid mi naban) i for
£4,500. year lease 0! toase iso
able at £180 ‘p.s. Bour beds, 2 Dathroome,
2 large ree., hail with oak
baad Ban Ste Mes ooh &
recomment le ; Moo! lay
ors, Carson. eS 2606.

£4,000, Sowgn,minin
Son & Bastey,
147, North Btreet, Bi

SUCRER Aree ine a BORDERS. One
of the loveliest stone-| bolt houses fn the
feet up, with unspoiled vista me ror
woodea’ mi the f Bowth Down
ee An ” ‘pete miles from
jaadan end near = The
ase condition provi % the nee ay
ie rare in modent een

_ Bodigoms wis

wat botroous
Uy 50 feet

2 thet be
ee

Ss. CORNWALL.” A rare 5. Cornish

rty. A fi luded propert) dose

a. Cornish coastal town, built ot

oat with 2 acrea of elcsup garden
trees and plants.

pata ree ‘shops, station, eto, 1s
ing, ¥! iS Bs ta nS bate

and oonapact domeatio Gites,
conservatal Outbuildings include ttm!

bungalow ¢ " large rooms end ad lebby) mee
GEnee (2 care), snd ataff rooms adj

ain water main modern drain-
age. Freehold. piece including electric
pphrigerator and cooker, £8,260 gr ey offer.

grocutor & PLUMBTEAD, Savnane} ‘Faim put.
Ref. 3006.

10] =
'* Cornish Yacht Club. .
amall Residence, in Penatiful walled gardens,
overlooking fine harbour views. Close shopa,
otc., and easy react bathing beaches, Hall,
2 2 large reception, 4 rh bath-
le modern domeatic th ofan, args largo

Ani
sore or, additional
room. All main services, Be oe Vacant

500.-—Apply:
PLoMergaD

large
rooms, supple

lon. Freehold,

le Agente, Brooigor
Mawnan, Hef,
OUTH superd
views of the sea and coast line, Gentle-
man’s modern Residence with avery
gonvenience, 8-9 bedrooms, 2 yooms,
henting ot elena 1 acre of
ich eee orate

€7,000 freehold.—! by

sole Agence: OER TEAS & Co,, Lap, wi
+ stone. agalor

aaa oa evo bat Valley

scullory. Sy 'aares gD

ving room,

TO teT

PTALIAN CRIVIERA.

and Porto ereas.—Full
AGEXELA MODIERA, Sig.

nm
im
nen anes te eating i Tomei,

Bae Sea

fornished or wafur-
Margh

Fravegs,

To let or for sale,
from

TA00F,~--,

aon

win Hood's Bay.

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH

OSBORN & MERCER

MEMBERS OF THE CHARTERED SURVEYORS' AND AUCTIONEERS’ INSTITUTES

HEREFORDSHIRE
Btiuate ina splendid pocition about 94 selies from Rosson Wye.
A DELIGHTFUL COUNTRY RESIDENCE
Bult of eld red sandetene and nevinw principal
aepects of Seuth and Seuth East

— 3 + ie thoes wil and caine bathrooma,

Baosltent water aupply.
Re oc ahisrs COTTAGE

Twe Reppin Papen Pay
Lovely old world vith ‘trees, tennia
fi wicker” Saracen
court, prolitic Walled s Garden, ‘productive

ABOUT 1% ACRES
FOR SALE FREBHOLD

Agents: OSBORN & MERCER, as above,

FAVOURITE ASCOT DISTRICT
En on extremely pleasant and aocesrible lion well screened
im the road and standing some St. above s6a level.
en ar POINT xo MODERN RESIDENCE |
the subject of complete modernisation and now
considered to be one of the best equipped howess In

dl
Lounge hall, 8 reception rooms, 9 bed and dressing rooma,
5 bathrooms.

Main services. Central heating throughout.
ae Garage. Outbuildings.
Exceptionally attractive {gardens including two tenni
courts, lawns, dei Mare Senter garden Sin running
stream, 2 kitchen gardens, ete., in all

‘ABOUT 6 ACRES
FOR SALE FREEHOLD
Agents: OSBORN & MEROSR, as above.

(17,786)

(17,780)

5, MOUNT ST.
LONDON, W.1

14,

Pi splendid position poneos loved with due
an aouth aepect. ‘Within eaay reach of Exeter.

A Delightful Residence of the Georgian
‘ Period

Halia, 8 reception, bilHards room, 12 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms
Own electricity. Excellent water supply. Central heating.
Stabling for 6. Garage.

Well faid out gardona with Jowes, tennia a courts, walled
kitchen garden, vinery, each posses: eto + the whole

asouT rx ACRES
FOR SALE FREEHOLD
It may be possible to purchase additional land up to 150 acres,
Agents: OSBORN & MERCER, as above, (17,807)

CuRTIS & HENSON

1947

Mb, ALBEMARLE ST.
PICCADILLY, W.1

IN THE HEART OF EXMOOR

The exceptionally attractive commodiove
Freehold Residential Property

known as

WINSFORD GLEBE, WINSFORD,
Nr. Minehead

Occupying a unfaue situation, facing | South and com-
manding catensive views

Three rece; lon room, 18 bedroome, 4 bathrooms,
mt exoaient domestic ofora.

Range of stabling and garages. Groom's cottage.
Farm bulldings.

Attractive gardens, tennls court, bathing pool and some
@ ACRES of land.

To be Sold by Public Auction at an carly date, unless
previously disposed of by private treaty.

Pull details of the Joint Auctionsers: Mesa, OSBORN

AND MEROER, 28b, Albemarle Street, Piccadilly, W.1,

and Messrs, CHANIN & THOMAS, 1, Bancks Stroct,
Minehead, Bomerset.

Grosvenor 313% (3 {ines}
Beablished 1875

GENTLEMAN'S COUNTRY ESTATE
with 114, ACRES of market garden attached.

GEORGIAN HOUSE

Saven bedrooms, 2 bathrooma, 8 reception rooms,
Garage, stabling, farm buildings.

ESSE COOKER.

Agente :, Curtis & Henson, 5, Mount Strect, Grosvenor Square, W.1.

SURREY—HANTS BORDERS

Near favourite village of Tilford,

85 miles from London.

WOODCOCKS

On high ground.

(Grosvenor 3131).

ALL MAIN SERVICES.
COTTAGE.
Y mile of trout fishing (one bank only),

21 ACRES
ineluding 11% ACRES of rich market garden
PRICE £12,000 OR NEAR OFFER

20, ST. GEORGE STREET.
HANOVER SQUARE, W. wa

Enjoying extensive rural views,
Lovet {SST SUBBEX, Three miles Pee COUNT cenit
Use. “Toange hal, 3" 3 reception, 7 vaipal bed and
: ‘ Taelde’ bodsobece

rooms, bath Main
ve tree and wer 'wawly decorated. vGrouncs
a acTes

Garage, Stabling, chauffour’s flat. Also Fi
with farmhouse and buildings, which {5 eee

Possession Tosldenoe in

‘Woopcocxa, London Office.

FREEHOLD £€8,756.—

FAvouerts PART vie BEAUTIFUL
ees aR ke Delightful RBS IDENTIAL
‘Ts AND Sain’ nani Most attrcative medium
sized Mansion House in ee fal grounds, 4 reception, 12
eer aige coulldings ener dant yee MGM cicit wale
a Tic! relt-
watered land. anole ONLY &1 Early
Boereaaion of va buildings, and 85 acrea; reat at

tf required.—Woopooces, London Office.

23 miles station, Yeovil 10.
irre’ HOUSE OF OF obs ohanacts RACTER, 3 Feosntion
All rata, ae Geranze § % SOAE. Ree ipso eg aintto.
POSSESSION i i ae
Basen WOODCOGES, . ‘

104, BROMPTON ROAD,
|, CWS

GEATLEMA: Awe
PME CMARACTER. | Threo :
gence! heating. val mains, epee

mended by Sole ‘Agent: a; WooDoooKe, Le London Sho

HORSLEY & SALDRY

NEAR BRIDLINGTON, YORKS

BENTALL,

DEVON

Overtooki Dart Ei le water %
vertooking lovely poli borertd Deep anchorage,

COMPACT REBIOENCE

eapeliont cons Bs ae. Gare for

NortTH DEVON. Choico FARMING ESTATE 540
Aone wath stream. Gentieman’s house (7 be bode. e
baths., Aga, hye dro-electrie plant, ctc,). Three sets
bufldings with 'T.T. dairy premises. Secondar hone at and
cottages with baths. 28,000. POSSEESION.—
station 3. Beautifully

Wooncecks, London Office,
‘TUNSRIDOE WELLS 5 miles

situated small Estate 06 4 Achas sloping te to stream
(8 acres wood, § acres

Modern Besiden Shy oleed te aittline Boronia a beda
malo bath, jus 2 ‘beds Beas, ery ed ie athig divided Of).
Peanactive founds with fake, ote, Maia co and water.

Model farm _bulldings, £14,600. 1ON.—
ebooks, London Office.

Quick London,
chose FAVOURITE BERTFORDSHINE TOWN.

DELIGHTFUL GEORGIAN RESIDENCE AND
Farm. er ote , 2

ball, ny modern
fara with fin
ae Sat pasture and Sate Keoept #1
syailabla—WooD00cks, London

‘Office.

$0 VERY PICTURESQUE
Tt was the subject af 4 Cover ‘Photograpa in “ Country Life.”

FASCINATING O1.2-WORLD TUDOR COTTAGE
fp & pretty village near Bury St. Edmamis, with wealth of exposed oak beams,
polfabed oak floors, open fireplaces, etc.
Lounge hall, £ reosption rooms, 8 bedrooms (1 with h. and ¢.), large modern bathroom,
‘usual Gomestio offices. Main electricity. Telephone. Septic tank drainage.
A emall attractive well-stocked garden, kitchen garden, frult and asparagus.
POSSESSION FREEHOLD, ONLY £3,400

Bole Agents: Bawtaut, Honetay & BaLpRy, 184, Brompton Road, 8.W .8 (Ken. 0162).

8 méles from the soa.

GENTLEMAN'S RESIDENTIAL FARMING ESTATE
NEARLY 800 ACRES

Deiry and Mixed Farm eminently suitable Pedigree T.T. Herd.

CHARMING RESIDENCE OF CHARACTER
ALL MAIN SERVICES.
BAILIFF'S HOUSE, TWO COTTAGES. VERY FINE BUILDINGS,

oan water and clectricit
= Two modernly oquipped_cowhous house tine tng La tirlgect
IMMEDIATE POSSEBSION a RENWOLD ONLY £18,000

452 COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 14, 1947
Hobers 1 inet, Raton &a.,

aroevaner 183 GEORGE TROLLOPE & SONS “pies”

(4 tines) ESTABLISHED 1 and 6s, v'

28, ucla ST., CROBVERGR. SQ.. W.1 Weetminster, 8.W.i

‘en “ee By direction of ive. Thorburn Mutshead.

IDEAL FOR A TROUT HATCHERY, WITH LAKES,

ACRES STARAM, TRIBUTARY AND borin INoe ‘
20 miles from the coast, London 1%

WasT Sissi
“GhRRMING REG co A ioENCE RESIDENTIAL FARM 630

WITH VACANT POSSESSION. EXTRA £70 ACRES
RENTED

BERKS-WILTS-HANTS BORDERS

BUPERIOR FARMHOUSE

2 bath, 4 rec. rooma. Main electricity,
Electrically pumped water.

Seven beil.,

SEVEN COTTAGES. TWO SETS FARM BUILDINGS.

Rb mis (4 Ni, 2 dressti + ‘Ty! Atte . Riectric light and water.
Containing pedro (4 principa Ing rooms, entrying an Atteated herd. Klectrie light al Beautitus xivin-century Guesex Manor Mouse

bathroom, im panelled lounge pall and 2 rece pele fooms {one ig feo if eer eented:

‘ 30 jomest! jit Ta se ernised com) iy, easily run, conveniently plann

Double erage BUDASH COURT: Greenhouse, ‘Delight: URSENT CALS NEQUINES. Thres reception, 0-7 bed., 8 bath., tied kitchen (Aus), Large
etc. Electric light plant (new). Two water

ful gs with ants Jawn, rove gardens, etc. Small af dairy, P}
copia, {n all about 24 ACAI Further paddock of 2 ueres ALL LIVE AND DEAD STOCK IF DESIRED, Septic tank drainage (main eleotricity and wate alas
shortly). tnmedinte, Possession. For

available tt " tered oe CARE ih immeniate : Georce TROLLOPE & Sone. 25, Mount Street, 23 ACRES. ence €' ‘60

jon, Ideal for a snail private Guest House. Agents: ‘
Sote Agen! KORGE THOLLOPE & SDNR, as above, (4.241%) London, Wil. (U.3329) Agents: “Gnonun TROLLOPH & SONS, as above (D.2676)

eicversndn aes TURNER LORD & RANSOM yee.

(2 Ines)
127, MOUNT ST.. LONDON, W.1

PRELIMINARY NOTICE OF SALE. Bu order of Captain and Mrs. Derek Fitzgerald
The well-known

KESIDENTIAL, AGRICULTURAL AND SPORTING ESLATE
BRANCHES PARK, NEWMARKET
RED BRICK GEORGIAN MANSION

finely fitted and equipped throughout. Wer -arranged accummadation In suites. 15 principat bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, ample staff rooms, 4 bathrooms. Hixcellent reeepitlon rooms
inetudtng walant peacted Rbrary ane other panetted rooms, Adam drawing room, ete, O41 contra? heating. Own electric light plant.

PARK OF 200 ACREB, and gonit covorta of 150 acres.
WELL-KNOWN GARDENS AND GROUNDS, Walled kitehen garden, glass houses, etc.
COVERED SWIMMING BATH AND RACQUETS COURT
Cottages, ete.

Garage and stabling blocks and men’s roome. Lodges.

14 MLXED BARMS and other HOLDINGS, with homesteads and cottages.

In ali, about 2,600 ACRES.
for Sale by Auction in September (uniess previously sold by private contract).
Joint Auctioneers; TURNER Logp & RANSOM, 127, Mount Street, London, W.1, and DILLEY, THEAKSTON & BEARDNOKE, Market HIU, Huntingdon,

JAMES STYLES & WHITLOCK aquree
OXFORD AND CHIPPING NORTON
OXON-BUCKS BORDERS

Ina pretty hamlet. about 10 miles from Aylesbury and 45 miles from London.

MAIN ELECTRIC LIGHT, MAIN WATER SUPPLY.
PARTIAL CENTRAL HEATING. TELEPHONE.
Garage,

Protty garden and matured orchard, about 1 ACRE.
PRICE FREEHOLD, £5,000

VACANT POSSESSION,
Apply: The Sole Agents, JaMKS STYLER & WHITLOCK,
Oxford.

A TRULY DELIGHTFUL MODERNISEO 16TH-
CENTURY COTTAGE RESIDENCE

Built of brick, white-plastered, with dark half-timbering
and old tied roof, Original oak fluores and doors and large
open fireplaces,

Lounge hall, 2 sitting rooma, kitchen with Aga cooker,
3 bedrooma, 2 hathrooms.

WEST OXON WILTSHIRE
On outskirts of small market town. Hunting with the V.W.H., the Cricklade and the Beaufort Packs,
FINELY CONSTRUCTED, MODERN, COTSWOLO-STYLE HOUSE CHARMING OLD PERIOD HOUSE (circa 1850)
Four sitting rooms, 7 bedrooms, bathroom, 'g attic bedrooms. All main services: kounge hall, 3 sitting rooms, st bed and dressing rovms, bathroom, storage attics.
‘Telephone. , Garage, AU main services, tel lephone. ®, stabling and wath larmery. (Gardens and
ACR ane A good “fi fem * house, Caden in all about $ ACR
FOR SAL5} FREEHOLD With VACANT POSSESSION ON COMPLETION PRICE FREEHOLD £7,000 VACANT POSBESBION
Apply: JAMES STYLES & Warlock, Oxtord, Apply: Jamas Styius & WartLook, Oxford.

KING & CHASEMORE
PPE CO.,77, South Audley Cmaida wil HORSHAM, SUSSEX, _(Tel.: Horsham 111)
KENT—SUSSEX BORDERS OUTLYING PORTIONS OF THE COMBE WOOD ESTATE
Te miles from coast ro mites Atchingham Station (main line). Situate In an indesoribably beautiful position In
THIB CHARMING ST. LEONARD’S FOREST, SUSSEX
QEORGIAN 8} miles east of Horsham, 36 mails From London.

A MOST ATTRACTIVE
REGIOENCE MODEAN AESIDENCE
Three reception, billiards

SOUTHOVE!
room, 2 bath., 10 bed and with 2 reception rooms,
dressing rooms, Main ctec-

domestic offices, G bed-
rooms, bathroom, main
tricity and water. Tele-
phone. Garage for 4. Two

water and electrlolty. Br Bmall
cottages, Nloely timbered

cottage and

mostly glorious woodinn id,
grounds, walled kitchen and Including a small lake.
garden, glasshouses,
orchard and graséland.

NEW HARN FARM:
Farmhouse (damaged but
38 ACRES. FREEHOLD. EARLY Lorne ty
TResippEr ¢ (

with boneltt ¢ of cost of works
NEAR BORDERS &
ma Sts SLACK Afi pir “t rate ee

t),
Baliinae’ an and
fil,

BLACKHOUSE FARMLAND: tange of farm bulldings and @1 AOWES,
G2 ACRES of beutiful woodland and cultural land affording corn: SITES
sultable for the erection of good class neces and commanding some of the finest
. Yiows in the Forest Area.
‘To be Gold by Auction as a whole or In 9 Lote at 2.30 p.m. on April 23, 1047, at
the Tewn Hall, Hersham.
Particulars, plan and conditions Seat ae of the Auctioneers: Messrs. Bisad CuasmMone

KENT. |

Lounge hall,

water and. clecetor 1 Hibae, Cooke: Tclopke
Nicely timbered jwimming pool,
.—TRRSIDDRA & Con 7% Bout ee Audley

Horsham, Sussex (‘Phone: Horsham 111).

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 14, 1947 453

we JOHN D. WOOD & CO. “

23, BERKELEY SQUARE, LONDON, W.1

In the same fomily since 1600 and first time in market. By direction of Mrs. Clare By direction of The Lady Mary Holt.
Sheridan. SANDLEFORD PRIORY ESTATE, NEAR NEWBURY,
BREDE PLACE, NEAR RYE, SUSSEX BERKS

Pourteenth- neeniery Manor House with Tudor additions. With shooting and trout fishing.

Of ldetoric Interest, in good Historie house completely
pletely

oeder, commanding fine modernised. — Beautifully
views and anprosdied by situated in park with views
© ope carnage drive, to the Downs. South-west.
aspect. Elghteen bed and

Grent and lounge hall, dressing rooms (with basins
atudy, drawing room, 14th- Principal rooms), 6 bath-
century chapel, Ten bed + rooms, billiards and 6
and dressing, 65 bath. . ities rooms. Central
central heating, main ger- feat , Glectric light, com-
vices. Lodge. Old-world Loven gas and water.
toplary ga: lens. Garage. ely grounds. Two

Farmory with 40 ACRES 3 cottages, Honw

of agricuttural land. About farkcary® Gandiefond Wacmn
308 acres let at £320 p.n.
en neacs ina, Extensive woodlands.
ABOUT 630 ACRES
VACANT POSSESSION OF RESIDENCE ANOD GROUNDS AS A WHOLE OR WITH 150 ACMES WITH VACANT ®OBSESBION OF
Be geome’ we ¥0ds THE HOUSE, GROUNDS AND WOODLAND
Rot, Bals, by: Auction, unless, sold privately, at Bre: eee Jous D. Woon & Co Nquare, London, W.1, atl CAPT. CRoH. BUTTON,

ed Land Agent, Brockenhurst, Hants,

Hy direction of Mian K. #. Ley.
BALLINACOURTE ESTATE, TIPPERARY | EASHING, NEAR GODALMING, SURREY BROXTON COURT, CHILBOLTON

IN THE GLEN OF AHERLOW Suitably planned for ayaa ao iad aeceusidle ta London NEAR ANDOVER

GBERING & COLYER, Ryc, Sussex, and Joux D. Woop & (o,, an above. P.PLAY

MODERN HOU: facing rev with extensive viewsato | WELL-BUILT HOUSE IN PLEAGANT SITUATION | BRICK AND TILE QENTLEMAN'S RESIDENCE.
the Galtees. Three reception, 6 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. Sixteen bed and 2 dressing rooms, 3 bat! ton, | Ten bedrooms, 3 reception, 2 bath. i
Woodland, warden and waterfall. Two cottages. 110 | Contral he: Main electricity and water. Chautfour's Four cottages. Puddocks, CRES.
ACRES of woudlund, 40 ACAES of grassland. Hotel | and gurdener’s cottages. Two garages. Walled kitchen | Poseesalon of house, ground and 2 cottages. Fishing
capable of development situated on matn road included. warden, Orchard. Grounds. obtainable in the district.

For Sale by Auction, uniess sold privately, at Dublin, 18 ACRES For Sale by Auction, uniese sold privately, at Andover,
APRIL 14, 1047 For Sale by Auction uniess sold privately. MARCH 20, 1947

ALLEN & TOWNSEND, 10, Stephen's Green, Dublin, and {nspected and recummended by Jonw D., Woop & Co., | 1. S$. ALLEN, fh, Hridge Street, Andover, Tanta, and

Joux D. Woop & Uo.. 23, Berkeley Square, "London, W.t. ax above. (22469) Jokn D. Woop & (0, 24, Berkeley Square, London, W.1.

on R. C. KNIGHT & SONS Sloscnar

130, MOUNT STREET, W.!

WEST SUFFOLK
GEORGIAN FAMILY RESIDENCE

NORTH-WEST NORFOLK

{NORFOLK-SUFFOLK BORDERS
16TH-CENTURY MOATED MANOR HOUSE

COMFORTABLE COUNTRY RESIDENCE

Six bedroome, bathroom, 3 reception rooms, cloakroom.
Garages. Gardener's cottage. All main services. Pleasant
grounds, tennis cotrt,

6 ACRES. VACANT POSSESSION

Apply to R. (. KxIGH? & Mons, Market Place, Stowmarket
(Tel.: $84/5).

Seven bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 4 reception rooms, central
heating, ulectriclty, Two cottages. Paddocks, woodland.

37 ACRES. IMMEDIATE VACANT POSSEESION

Apply to BR. C, Knieut & S0N8, Market Place, Stowmarket.
(Tel.: 8384/5).

NORFOLK DERBYSHIRE
MOATEO ELIZABETHAN RESIDENCE a SMALL AGRICULTURAL AND RESIDENTIAL
; ; «er.
Facing fudl south in timbered surroundings, Carefully restored and in excellent order. Kignt bedrooms, Comfortable amall House on 4 southern slope.

Seven bedrooms, 2 bathroums, 3 reception rooms, Mains

Ten bodrooms, 3 bathrooms, 5 reception rooms, 2 cottages. 2ibathropms, 5, seceptlon pnt. contzal heatlng:: “Lovely:

Gatagas. Canes eleetrlety. “Model T.T. Dalry Yarm. “Secondary farm,
192 ACR
25) ACRES. EARLY POSSESSION Joint Sole Agents: Jomy D. aS & Lo. 28, Rerkeley Fisting. Sh ota VACANT POSSESRION.
Square, London, , an a
Apply to B. ©, Kurout & Sons, 2, Upper King Street. | iGaant & AON. Apply to BR. C. Kxianr & Soxs, 2, Upper King Street,

Norwich, (Tel.: 24289). Norwich (Tel: 24280),

GEERING & COLYER
HAWKHURST AND ASHYORD, KENT; BYE AND HEATHEIELD, SUSSEX
RINGLE CROUCH, SANDHURST, KENT

A UNIQUE SMALL XVIIth-CENTURY MANOR HOUSE
with complete farmery and curtilage, the whole admirably maintained.

PV.AL SANDERS’ T. 8. BANDERS,

MARKET PLACE, SIDMOUTH. Tel.: Sidmouth 4t. :

SIDMOUTH, DEVON

Attractive Residence

Residence, due south with
wide views, and containing
original Jacobsan panelling:
3 reception rooms. 5

rooma, bathroom. Main
water and electricity.
Central heating.

Formal garden aad moat.
Fruit and vegetable garden.

Model cow sheds, oast house
nd other buildings. Nine
cottages.

Labour saving, 3 reeeption,
7 bedroom with 3 bath-
roonis,

Amall easily kept garden.

Two garages. All main
services, With a perfect
installation of central
heating.

14 ACHES

Ana whole er In Lote.
FOR SALE ®@Y AUCTION ON MAROH 27, 1947
Illustrated particulars of Guazmva & Cotran, Hawkborst, Kent.

Occupytng a delightful position In the western residential neighbourhood of Sidmouth
and offered with immediate possession. In excetlent condition throughout.

FREEHOLD £10,000

454

22, MOUNT 8T.,
GROGBVENOR 8G., LONDON, W.1

DORKING, SURREY
aienVoim: Honorees Sina One ae sande,

AN ATTRACTIVE COUNTRY HOUGE standing

400 ft. above a level adjacent Mettona) 1 Trust rast peo:

tty. Nine beds., 2 baths, 4 rec. main 46

jarage, cottage, dat, eoarmaing | arden. Hard court.
FOR SALE WITH 14 ACRES

Inspected and recommended by Wiison & Co., 93,
Mount Street, W.1.

COUNTRY LIFE— MARCH

14, 1947

Greovener
1448

HANTS, NEAR BASINGSTOKE
Gara ad Delightful views, Lentts vaien:

WILSON & CO.

LOVELIEST SPOT IN S. DEVON

Thnrlestone Sands, near jaw, Kingeoridee. Adjoining the iach
ind golf links with glorious sasteinioa :

ATTRACTIVE GMALL KSTATE OF =. ACRES
so woll-appointed residence. 12 bed an
water’ Tatts. 9 epion, Main euscinty 00d
with large LAKE.
PREEHOLD FOR BALE

Sole Agents: Wita0n & Co., 28, Mount Street, W.1.

Braurituccy APPOINTED and decorated, in first-
rate order. ‘argo lounge, 3 reception rooms opening to to

ia, maids’ sitting room, 7 bedrooms fitted
and wash basins, 2 rooms, Gi es for 4 cara,
cy rooms and bathroom pepe Main stoct olect: 4 oe oot ee ieaiec.
},000. Thewhonofthomeders| furniture a
be purchased if required. Owner's Agents: Wosox & Co.

FORTHCOMING SALES BY AUCTION

AN AGRICULTURAL AND RESIDENTIAL
ESTATE
26 miles south of London.
aa1 ACRES

A RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
WITH MO8T ATTRACTIVE HOUSE

6s ACRES
In the Newmarket district, Suffolk.

VACANT POSSESSION,

BY BIDWELL & SONS

A FIRST-CLASS FEN AND HIGHLAND
FARM
476 ACRES
Near Ely, Cambs.
WITH VACANT POSSESSION.

AN AGRICULTURAL ESTATE

10 FARMS
$37 ACRES

East Suffolk.
A PRODUCTIVE FARM
239 ACRES
Close to Cambridge.
VACANT POSSESSION.

A_ SMALL SPORTING AND
AGRICULTURAL ESTATE
ast ACRES
22 ACRES WOODLAND.
Camba-Enez Horders.

BERWICKSHIRE

EXCELLENT RESIDENTIAL BPORTING AND
AGRICULTURAL ESTATK

including
One of the best Farma in the Border Country.
1316 ACRES
VACANT POSSESSION,

Particulars of the above properties are iu course of preparatiun and detailed advertisements will appear shortly.

MESSRS. BIDWELL & SONS

Chartered Burveyors, Land Agents and Auctioneers, Head Office: 2 King’s Parade, Cambridge, and at Ely, inewich and London.

FAREBROTHER, ELLIS & CO.

Eetablished 1789
AUCTIONEERS. CHARTERED SURVEYORS, LAND

Centrat
9344/6/6/7

Telegrams:

AGENTS. “Farebrother, London"

29, FLEET STREET, LONDON, E.C.4

BOURNEMOUTH WEST

Directly on the water front and Poole Harbour. Fine views over Hrownses Island.

MODERN RESIDENCE
Five bedrooms; 3 reception roome; lounge-hall.
Central Heating.
ALL MAINS SERVICES

Garage.

For further particulars apply :

B. BAVERSTOCK & SON

ESTATE OFFICES
GODALMING (Tel.: 2}
P cna AND HINDHEAD
in much favoured Frensham district within
3 miles Farnham (electric service to Waterloo).
ATTRACTIVE COUNTRY
RECIDENCE OF CHARACTER
originally two cottarce with sympathetic
additions,
Six bedrooms (1 fitted basin), 2 bathrooms,
delta roe Ste ai ein
s cen >
main services, peal drainage. Garage

Garden and grounds of 8, (or 4%) ACRES
: PRERHOLD £6,280
Bole Agents: Apply Faruham Oftiogiy
8,

1 mile station. 33 miles

Grounds of about.

ONE ACRE
Private gate to beach, and own alipway.

Flat aun roof.

FREEHOLD TO BE SOLD.

VACANT POSSESSION ON COMPLETION,

FAREBROTHER, ELLIG & OO., 29, Flest Strect, E.C.4. Central 8344/8/6/7.

4, CASTLE S'TRERT,
FARNHAM (Tel.: 5274)

BETWEEN GUILDFORD AND DORKING. SURREY-HANTS BORDERS
London. — Surrownded

by lenge! banded estate Lovely distant

> DISTINCTIVE

MODERN RESIDENCE
Four rece] — rooms, 11 bed-
rooms, 2 bathrooms, complete
offices, Genteal heating through-
out. Main ploctriolty 5 end water.
Garages, stabling and fiat. Two

itifuity in
tained grounds of 7 AGNES

VACANT POSSESSION arden wi
£12,000 FREEHOLD rrem acs pee
Owner's Agents: A! Farnham Office,
asal

Fuliest details of the Agents,
as above, ve,

COUNTRY LIFE— MARCH

HARRODS

34.36. HANS CRESCENT, LONDON. S.W.1

ESTATE

‘Telegrame +
“Metate, Harrods, Londen?’

14,

1947

JFFICES

ADJOINING A SURREY GOLF COURSE
Caarming house in a glorious position on High ground facing South. Convenient Sunningdale and Woking. About 28 miles London.

BERKS AND SURREY <4
BORDERS
About 1 hour London, Gond train servics,

STATELY GEORGIAN RESIDENCE
IDEAL FOR SCHOOL, INSTITUTION, ETC.

Suite of 6 large reception rooms, 17 bedrooms,
modern ottices. Co.'s electric ight and water,

Central heating. Good garage and stabling, lodge, ete.
Park-like grounds,

Lake, lawna, walled kitchen garden, rich pastureland, etc.,
In all over

30 ACRES

£17,500 FREEHOLD
>, HARLY POSSESSION,

6 bathrooma,
Telephone.

Recommended from personal Inspection: Hakkops Lrp.,
84-36, Hans resent, Kuigtitatsridge, 8.W.l (Zel.:
‘enainyton 1400. rth. 306).

‘THE MODERN RESIDENCE
is lavishly fitted, approached by 2 avenue drives. Hail,
4 reception, 12 “bedrooms, 4 baths, (o,.’s electric Nght,
gas and water, Centra! hosting. Modern drainage.
Stabiing and garage. Double lodge. 2 cottages.
Full-size skittle alley.

THE GROUNDS

are s feature, banka of rhododeridrons, hard tennis court,
large kitchen garden, orchard, woodland walks, two
‘paddonks. In a)) about

0 ACRES. FOR GALE FREEHOLD

CAMBS, HUNTS AND BEDS

BORDERS c.4

SOUTH ASPECT
A CHARMING RESIDENCE

entirely modernised, all services in old-world grounds of
about 2 ACRES

Dining and ontrance hall, lounge 26 ft. 9ins, by 18 ft.

4 bedrooms, bathroom, etc, Good outbuildings, garage,
eto. Compsny’s electric ight and water.

Centra} beating, etc.

WITH VACANT POSSESSION and with 15 ACRES
arable land adjolatag (st off).

FREEHOLD £7,000
HaRnons I7D.. 84-56, Hans Cresoent, Knightabridge, 8.W.1

(Tet.; Keneington 1490. esate. EXINS aND
Sor, at Ne Neota, uate,

BASINGSTOKE AND DISTRICT
Near village with bua service and 6 miles from the town.

with rooms over.

Inspected and recommended: Sole Agents, HaRrops Lrn., 84-36, Hans Crescent, §.W.1 (Tel.: Kensington 1400. Hatn, 807).

BRACING KENT COAST ¢.3

Chotos postition within easy reach of championshtp golf course

ATTRACTIVE FREEHOLD RESIDENCE

which would be aultablo for Nuraling Homo or similar

fnatitution.

Four reception, biljiard room, 14 bed and dressing roome,
2 bathroome. Main drainage. Co.'s gas and water. Garage

Good grounds extending to about

24%, ACRES FOR SALE FREEHOLD

Harrops Ltp., 34-86, Hans Crescent, Knightsbridge, 8.W.1

(Tal.: Kensington 1490, Hatin. 807).

MODERNISED GEORGIAN
thoroughly reconditioned, taclng south and commanding most pleusing prospect of undulating country.

FARMHOUSE
Lounge hall, 3 reception, 9 bedrooms, ¢ bathrooms, maids’ sitting room,

MAIN WATHR AND ELECTRICITY. CENTRAL HEATING THROUGHOUT. FITTED BASINS IN ALL BEDROOMS.

Garage for 2. Three fine old barns.

Matured gardens and grounds, walled kitchen garden, orchard and field.

IN ALL ABGUT 74 ACRES FREEHOLD £9,500.

Anspected and strongly recommended: Hakzops Lrp., 34-36, Hans Crescent, 8,W.1.

Telephone:
4554

A. P. R. NICOLLE, F.a.1.

62, FLERT &TREET, TORQUAY

BEAUTIFUL PART OF DEVON

Fhalf write rittane 14 miles Plymouth, Sauth aspect,
a

Established
1850

in & charniing setting.
Hall with balcony, 3 recep-
tion rooma, 8-0 bedrooms,
2 bathrooms, kitchen with
Aga cooker, Manin eleo-
trielty. Garage for 8 cara.
Stabling. Lodge. Three
oottages.

Very attractive grounds,
with lawns, terrace, orcha
pasture, etc., in all about
2% ACRES (14 Let)
FOR SALE FREEHOLD
WITH VACANT

(LES HASLEMERE
MODERN RESIDENCE
te wiseos over

SURREY. 4
Arraacrivé
ring semigue Pretiloe 708 feel above veo level. Glerines

Open country.
Raters hall, 2 reception roonis with oak beams and drick Srynlaors § bedrooms
(a and ¢,), buthroom, kitelien with Aga cooker, Central Main services.
Garage for 2 errs, Hant tennis court.
4 AORE. PRICE £4,750 FREEHOLD.

VACANT POSSESSION
(Tel.: Heneington 1490. Exin. 809).

HARRIE STACEY & SON gest ona

6. BELL STREET, REIGATE TADWORTH

KINGSWOOD, SURREY
20 miles London, 500A. abore sea level in 0 residential district deservedly papular for iis rural
character ond acosasibility.
FINELY APPOINTED
MOOEAN RESIDENCE
OF OMBTINCTIVE
CHARACTER
Six bedrooms, 2 bathrooms,
3 receptions, billiards room,
clankroom, ' balcony and
loggias. Vompnct domestic
offices,

BEIGATE
6/7
Redhill 631/2

First-rate condition. Taste-
ful decorations. Central
heating throughout,

DOUBLE GARAGE and
outbulldings.
WERLL-LAID AND ATTRACTIVE GARDENS
with hard tennis court jln woodland setting, amounting. to
ABOUT TWO ACRES. To be sold Freehold.

Full detalis of Sole Agents i Hanrniz BTacty & BON, 6, Bell Btreet, Reigate; Gresham
ulldings, Redidil, and Tadworth’ Station

456 COUNTRY LIFE--MARCH 14, 1947

BOURNEMOUTH : SOUTHAMPTON!
rot a a FOX & SONS iy rie
‘B STODDART FOX, F.1.6.1., ¥.4.1- . BRIGHTON " .
4H, INSLBY FOX, ¥.8.1., FAT. BOURNEMOUTH—SOUTHAMPTON~- BRIGHTON & WORTHING 4. W.SYKES, A. KILVINGTON

LLANDUDNO, NORTH WALES
Gooetivny cm nace me Ve eon at Khe foot of the Ldttle Orme, and commanding wonderful ponoramic views over tha hay ta Gract Orme Anglesey, and the Irish Sea.
f The ultra-modern Freehold Marine Residence i

* VILLA MARINA,” LITTLE ORME, LLANQUDNO
The residence was erected regardioss of cost, is soundly
constructed, and fitted with every labour-saving device of
the very best quality, All principal rooms have wonderful
views. Bight hedrooms, 8 expenaively fitted bathrooms,

3 spacious Teception rooms, complete domestic offices,
delightful marine terrace and verandah.

Ramp approach to baach with private changing rooms.

Delightful formal gardens with Palladian pavillon over-
looking sea, Garaye. A}) taaln services, Automatic low
pressure ail coutral heating plant.

possnesron ON EEE LETION oF
HE PURCHAS!

VACANT

To be Bold by Auction at the North-Western Hotel, Liandudno, on Friday, April 2%, 1947.
Solicitors: Messrs, CHAMBERLAIN, JOHNSON & PaRkx, Trinity Square, Liandudno. Joint Auctloneers: Mesirs, MATTHEW Ryan, Brake & WitiiaMs. Augusta Street, Llandudno,
and Messrs. Fox & Sons, 44-62, Old Christeburch Road, Bournemouth,

HIGHCLIFFE-ON-SEA, HANTS.

Sissted only. a. short, dietancs Jrom ths village and the Sone and wwllhin easy mccorsne.

By direction of Sir Rowland Barran,

WEST CLIFF, BOURNEMOUTH

Occupying almost the finest position on the beautiful West Overolijf Drive and Promenade,
overlooking ‘ha nad and withtn very etey walking distance of the centre of the town. jistance of the beautiful New Fi
FOX & SONS
are favoured with Instructions to Sell by Auction at St. Peter's Hall, Hinton AN EXCEEDINGLY ATTRACTIVE SMALL RESIDENCE
Road, Zournemauth, on ‘Thucaday, Maron 20, hed at 3 p.m. (unless previously having delightfal views and la constructed so that sll the roome get the maximum
y private treaty amount of sunshine. Five bedrooms, bathroom, 2 reception rooms, good kitchen and
THE BXCBPTIONALLY *oHOTE AND MAGNIPICENTLY SITUATED dosneatic offices,
HHOLD MARINE RESIDEN
ss ROCKSTEAD”, WEST OVERCLIFF. E DRIVE Garage. Revolving summer house, cold frames, potting shed. All main serviges,
Part central heating. Telephone,
Nine bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, billiards % reception frooms, complete domestic
oftoes. Tollot basins (h. and c.) in all bedrooms, Central heating, South aspect.
feated conservatory, greenhouse, garage and Covered washdown. Particularly charming gardens and grounds in perfect cova on including well-kept,
lawas, ornamental rose garden, Illy, fish pond, kitchen garden, numerous fult trees,

Delightfully laid-out grounds of just over } ACRE
‘The restdence is held upon Lease for the residue of a term of 99 yoars, expiring
November 11, 2011, at an annua) ground rent of £35.
sieetoa nas POSSESSION On COMPLETION OF THE PURCHASE
lculars and conditions of sale may be obtained of the Solicitors: Mossra,
pane ms ¥ & WELLE, Hinton Chambers, inton Road, Bournemouth, and of the
Anotioneers:; Mesars. Fox & 80N8, 44-62%, Old Christehureh Road, Bournemouth,
52, Poole Road, Westbourne, and Branch Omces. Also at Southampton, Brighton and
orthity

Pal south oe) SUSSER HOVE, SUSSEX ROTTINGDEAN, SUSSEX COAST

Gooupying a dalighefel Hon tn Janqured lovality, close ta | First-class residential district, close to direct bus route to | In the heart of this charming old-world village rich in hie
Oka Station half a mile. Haywards Breen Station. torical associations. Brighton 4 miles.

etc, The whole ‘extending to nu area of about ¢ ACRE.

PRICE 28,500 FREEHOLD

Particulars and orders ta view may be obtained of xox & Sons, 44-52, Old Christohurch
, Bournemouth.

ATTRACTIVE DETACHED SESIDENCE DELIOHTFUL 14TH-CENTURY RESIDENCE

. Set in secluded grounds of about { AGRE. Four bedrooms,
aaa eom, Wiochen aeeeeet Mate electricity: and water, | tiled bathroom, separate w.c., 8 reception rooms, cloak- | Five main bedrooms, 2, staff, 3 bathrooms, 4 reception

“ CRANTOCK"’, CHAILEY
Excoptionally well-built, Detached Modern Freehold
loakroom, kitchen, . Main electricity and water. ards Toor -
Matured garden with vavable fruit trees, oxtends to about | room, kitohen, Bum room. Garage. Redeoorated | Nr'sedinded growndn’ sf aboot VACRES. “Garage ? can
HALF AN ACRE throughout. Stabling. Ali main services,
VACANT POSSESSION
‘To be Gold by Auction (uniese previously sold by | PRICE £6,000 FREEHOLD. VACANT POSSEBBION | To be Let aurnlehed for twelve months from Maroh,

private treaty) | at The Old or be seer’ Brighton, on . Rent 18 Guineas per weal
Tuesday, March :
Solicitors: Messrs. COLBOUENE, Buen & BakTLatt, 62, Gid '
Steine, Hrighton L. Auctioneers: Pox & SONS, 117, ‘Western Full details: Fox & Bone 17 oes Road, Brighton, | Full details: Fox & Sone, 217. Mattern: Road, Brighton,
Road, Brighton. Tef.; Hove 2277 and 7270 (4 Sines), a Zz
Bournemouth 6300 44-52, OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD, BOURNEMOUTH, Telegrams :
(8 Hees) (12 BRANCH OFFICES) “Homefinder, '’ Bournemouth

FRATONS, MAIDENHEAD THICKET

On the Thicket and over! National Truat property, 2 miles from the ation and
‘B minutes’ walk from main bus route.

MODERN Resieenee WITH COTTAGE

The accommodation is
planned on two floors:—

Four rovepti jon rooms, 12

bed and ing roome (9

with fitted basins), A Bath. +
5 wc, off,

Main electricity, water nag
gas. Central heating.

Cottage : 8 rooms, kitchen,
bathroom and w.c.

WELLER, SON & GRINSTED

GUILDFORD, Te): 3808/9 CRANLEIGH Tel: 6
ee

JUST ON THE MARKET,

SURREY—SUSSEX BORDERS

Under Blackdown Hill on the outekirts of Haslemere. London 50 mins, (main S.R.
electric lins),
OELIGHTFUL RESIDENTIAL AND AGRICULTURAL ESTATE |

MODERNISED FARMHOUSE of local stone construction exposed oak) beams
throughout interior. Entrances hall, 2 recaption, & bedrooma, bathroom, ‘and w.o.
Umal domestic offices, Aga cooker, |

THREE SUPBRIOR DETACHED COTTAGES. TWO FASCINATING TROUT
LAKES, one with boathouse.

Substantialty built farm buikttngs, recently the home of av Attested Herd.
1@ ACRES
of woodland, arable and pasture land,
£16,000. VACANT POSSESSION. USUAL VALUATIONS. . |

Garages for 4 cars. Ample
outbuildings, Garden, Pe
tennis court, orchard and
paddock.

ABOUT 4 ACRRS (additional iand (? required).

POR SALE BY PRIVATE TREATY WITH VACANT FOSSZS610ON
Putther particulars from

ALLSOP & CO.

M1, SOHO BQUARE, W.1. Ger, sae.

Further particulars from the Sole Agente, as above,

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RURAL RECONDITIONING

N September of 1945 the Housing (Rural
I Workers) Acts, which enabled grants to be
made and loans to be offered to owners of
rural cottages in need of reconditioning, lapsed.
The newly-appointed Minister of Health refused
either to re-enact them or to adopt a Bill
extending their scope, which had been prepared
by the Caretaker Government before the General
Election. The first reason given was that it was
contrary to the new Government's policy to
make grants to private persons, hut subsequently
the Minister explained further that it was also
desired to prevent the diversion of labour from
the building of new houses in rural areas and
elsewhere, He also agreed to ask the Rural
Housing Sub-committee of the Central Housing
Advisory Committee to submit a report on the
subject. That Sub-committee, generally given
the name of its chairman, Sir Arthur Hobhouse,
had already. made a careful survey of available
rural housing in all its aspects, and they have
now reported again—to much the same effect as
before. The main practical matters to be con-
sidered are whether any substantial increase in
rural accommodation could be achieved by
reconditioning, whether it would be possible to
achieve this increase rapidly and without with-
drawing labour and materials from the produc-
tion of new houses, and whether satisfactory
arrangements can be devised for the adminis-
tration of a new Act which would make it the
duty of local authorities to stimulate and assist
reconditioning to the maximum extent,

To all these questions the Hobhouse
Committee return positive answers. During the
past three years rural housing authorities have
been conducting a comprehensive survey of all
inhabited houses in rural districts, and the
statistical reports for many areas are now avail-
able. The Committee's analysis of the, igures
leads them to the belief that there are at the
present time approximately 100,000 houses in
rural districts suitable for reconditioning, each
of which would add substantially—if not as
much as would a new house—to the total of
accommodation, With regard to. the question
of labour, the Committee come to the conclusion
that there is labour on the countryside able to
do the work required but not available for
building new houses. In particular the very
smal) builder, not equipped to undertake new
housing contracts, is well suited to the careful
individual work involved in reconditioning.
The Committee also note that much of the
labour in country districts is immobile but is
nevertheless capable of reconditioning property
near at hand, and that many of the craftsmen
remaining in our villages are more conversant
with repairs and altsrations to old buildi;
than with the erection of new. As to ad
tration, they think that the Rural Di
Council should be the authority for the pu:

COUNTRY LIFE— MARCH

14,

of any new Act, and that if the Minister were
given default powers to transfer functions to the
County Council, it would not be difficult to
ensure that full! and proper use was made of
such an Act. As for its terms, they could be
framed so as to ensure that public money was
spent only upon producing dwellings initially
satisfactory in all respects, that the benefit of
any grant made accrued to the tenant, and that
the building continued to be used for the
housing of rural workers.

The conditions under which assistance to
owners should be granted, and the nature of the
financial aid, have often been discussed in these
pages. There is much to be said for the generous
attitude suggested by the Hobhouse Committee,
though if such generous assistance is to be given
or offered, it must clearly be made the duty of
the owner either to make use of it or to abandon
his property to the heusing authority. The
question arises whether—as Mr. Bevan has
asked and many local authorities have denied—
it ought to be given at all. The reasons for
denying it must be strong indeed at a time like
this, when agricultural revival is all-important,
and rural housing is in such a dire condition.
They never amount, so far as we have seen, to
more than a political statement that grants
from public funds ought not to be made for the
improvement of private property. This attitude,
which has caused Miss Jenny Lee to produce
a Minority Report of her own, was fully dealt
with by the Hobhouse Committee in the original
Report on Rural Housing, in which they
declared that it arose out of a misunderstanding
of the Acts concerned and their intention. As
the Silkin Committee suggested, their principle
might well be extended to urban as well as rural]
reconditioning.

MARCH MORNING
T ts herve! It has come again—
The sweet and bitter hour

When the heart breaks into pain

As the earth breaks into ower:
When the sun and the balmy atr
Sweep fortitude away,
And spring is harder to bear

Than the bleakest winter day.

‘ Lestey GRrEy.

BACK TO SUMMER TIME

JUTTING the clocks forward in March’ and

again in April runs counter to the country-
man’s common sense. He knows how to make
the best use of daylight without fooling himself
by changing clock time. However, he accepts
this Summer Time as an inevitable contribution
to solving the crisis into which we have drifted.
According to the Home Secretary, only 150,000
tons of fuel will be saved, but the Government
hope that by altering the hands of the clock they
will induce more townsmen to work double
shifts in daylight. That is on the credit 5 de.
On the debit side there is the unduly long
working week that will be imposed on farmers
and farm-workers, if they are to go by the clock
and still get the hay in and do the many other
urgent jobs that depend for their timing on the
sun. While this necessity is imposed on agri-
culture, workers in other industries can surely
be expected to forgo claims for a 40- or 44-hour
week. Longer hours of farm work mean extra
costs. What this will amount to this season is
hard to estimate. The figure of £8,000,000 has
been mentioned, and this may well prove a fair
guess. At the moment all farm work is far in
arrears, and even without altering the clock
a great deal of overtime would have been
necessary to get through all the work that lies
ahead for the farming community.

WATCHING THE RIVER RUN BY

HE decision of the Thames Conservancy

Board to make the Thames towpath from
Teddington to Cricklade into a riverside walk is
highly commendable in principle, though per-
haps the Oxfordshire representatives were right
who questioned whether this is the time to do
so. A towpath, where it exists, is one of those
amenities so much taken for granted that it does
not occur to the public to wonder to whom it
belongs or who keeps it up. Actually the
Conservancy Board own only 184% out of the
136 miles concerned, with rights for towing over

1947

parts of the remainder, which all belongs to
other persons or bodies. Towing is practically
non-existent, and so, for many lengths of its
course, is the path. While everybody will agree
that the right of passage should be secured to
the public, it is startling to learn that it will cost
£50,000 a year, at the outset, to provide the
right and a practicable path. The Conservancy
Board has, in effect, saddled the ratepayers of
the riverside counties with finding thie amount,
and at a time when they are hard pressed to
provide the necessities of life, in order to under-
take what at best can be regarded as an
agreeable amenity primarily for the enjoyment
of persons who are not contributing to the cost.
It is true that the amount is’ relatively small,
but it is time the country realised that it is in
no condition to spend anything on non-
productive undertakings.

STARLINGS ABROAD
6 Niege unusually large flocks of starlings seen
in London recently remind us again that
one man’s meat may be another man’s poison.
During the first Five-year Plan in Russia every
effort was made to induce these birds to multi-
ply: all children between the ages of twelve
and fourteen were expected to build one starling
house every year, On the other hand, as a
writer in the Canadian Forest and Outdoors
records, they have become a nuisance in the
United States since they were introduced about
sixty years ago as likely controllers of insect
pests. They are now judged, indeed, to be the
commonest of all birds im Eastern North
America, In Washington a vast flock is reported
to have gathered nightly near the White House.
An adviser said that starlings roosted only on
small twigs, so the trees were ruthlessly pruned
and the birds then congregated on the ledges of
the buildings, whence they refused to be moved
by the fire brigade. In Philadelphia, where
building roosts were apparently formed without
any direct human encouragement, a steeplejack
was employed to distribute an offensive-
smelling substance on the favourite ledges. As
birds have little or no sense of smell, the action
had no effect; but the Library Board’s more
ingenious attempt to scare starlings from the
library achieved a result. A horned owl was
borrowed from the local zoo and hung in a cage
on the building. The owl proved an attraction,
and the original congregation of starlings was
much increased by others who came to look and
scold, More recently Cornell University is
reported to have evulved a method of starling
control simply by putting up easily accessible
nest-boxes . . . ‘‘in a three-year control experi-
ment ... practically the entire starling popu-
lation of a two-mile-square test area in New
York accepted the boxes for nidification
purposes."
A ONE-ARMED PRODIGY

EWS comes from America of a wonderful
one-armed golfer, Jimmy Nichols by
name, who is likely to play in our Open Cham-
pionship at Hoylake. Leonard Crawley, who
has been playing with him, declares that he
would always finish in the first dozen in any
professional competition here, and if this is so
the stewards at Hoylake who have to look after
Nichols’s match will have a hard time of it, for
he will be such a magnet’ for the crowd that all
the two-handed champions may be deserted. It
appears that he lost his right arm when he was
six-and-twenty, took up golf three years later
and three years later again became a pro-
fessional. He drives back-handed with his left
hand, but apparently putts fore-handed.
Whether he is naturally right- or left-handed
we are not told, but from his putting forehanded
we should be inclined to believe that his left
hand had always been the master. There have
been several very good one-handed players in
this country, but none who have come nearly
up to this standard. France possessed a very
fine one-handed professional some years ago in
Yves Bocatzon, who was perfectly capable of
beating the best of amateurs round La Boulie.
He, if memory serves, had lost his left arm in
an accident, and played all his strokes fore-
handed with his right hand, If Nichols comes
here the most blasé of spectators has still some-
thing to look forward to.

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 14,

HEAVY SKIES OVER THE KERRY HILLS

1947

461

F. H. Crowe

A COUNTRYMAN’S NOTES

UR birds’ breakfast table, which incident-
ally is a rea] table capable of seating four
humans or at least forty birds, is set in a

porch outside the dining-room window. It is open
on three sides to the garden, and the roof overhead
is supported by two oak uprights. Consequently
it is sheltered from the rain and also, so both
we and the bird members of the club imagined,
from unwelcome visitors of the hawk species.
This morning at lunch time (for we do lunches
as well as breakfasts) when there were'a goodly
number of members taking their midday meal,
there was a sudden shadow, and a large greyish
shape swept in at one side of the porch, over the
table and out the other side. The fleeting
apparition was, so far as I could see, a sparrow-
hawk, but he came and went so quickly that
I was not quite certain whether I had really
seen something or not. The small birds, on the
other hand, were quite sure about it, for two
blue tits ducked so vigorously as the sinister
shape swept overhead that they bumped their
beaks on the table; a robin who was just going
to alight back-pedalled vigorously and hit the
dining-room window when going in reverse, an
a coal-tit and a chaffinch dived under the table.
In fact, the consternation caused was about on
a par with that which would occur if a Min-
istry of Food inspector suddenly walked into a
London club at the luncheon hour and shouted :
"Food Inspecting Officer—-’Shun.”
* * .

Aare ‘avestigation of the ground to

leeward of the hawk's swoop did not
disclose the presence of any feathers, and it
Seems that the quick action taken by the
luncheon party was effective, since all the well-
known members turned up for breakfast the
following day, though in a highly nervous state.
As might be , the raid has affected
their confident bearing, and there seems to be
@ general feeling that the club is not quite the
Place it was in other days. I can sympathise

By
Major C. S. JARVIS

with them in this, for quite recently 1 was asked
by a friend to drink a pre-luncheon glass of
sherry with him at his Service club, but just
*before it was served the clock struck twelve.
On the last stroke a ‘‘sparrow-hawk’ waiter
swooped down on my host and reminded him
that, as nu guests were allowed in the club after
twelve midday, I must get out !

* *
*

URING my many voyages to and from
the Middle East I saw signals of distress
hoisted on more than one occasion, but luckily
never on the vessel in which I was travelling.
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There was the time when we met in calm
weather a small Greek steamer off Crete, which
first hoisted the flag signal code to say that she
was sinking and later altered it to state that there
was a mutiny on board. After we had lowered
a boat to go to their assistance, the officer in
charge of the launch came back in a very bad
temper with the first mate of the Greek ship,
and later, after returning him to his own vessel
with every indication of contempt, we continued
our voyage, the belching smoke from our
funnels suggesting that we were not amused.

Owing to the time-old Merchant Service
motto of “Do Not Tell the Passengers Any-
thing,” we never got to the bottom of the story,
but my steward, when I was about to tip him on
arrival at Marseilles, said that there were two
schools of thought among the crew about the
episode. One was that the Greek captain had
opened the sea-cocks to sink his ship so as to
collect the insurance money, and that this had
caused a mutiny among the crew because they
did not want to get wet, The other was that
“them Dagoes are always making a muck-up
with their signal flags, and what they had really
tried to send was nothing about sinking or
mutiny, but just that they wanted some coal
from us, as their bunkers were empty. That'san
old Greek dadge to get buckshee fuel."

* .
*

HEN an important message can be sent by

the employment of one flag only, which
everyone recognises, instead of the usual three or
four, signalling between ships is greatly simpli-
fied. As a case in point one may quote the plain
yellow flag, which everyone knows means
“Quarantine” without troubling to look it up
in the code book. There should be no difficulty
about signalting shortage of fuel in future, since
if the much-vaunted banner of the National
Coal Board is run up on the signal halyard to
the masthead, everybody will recognise it at
once as meafling : ‘We Have No Coal.”

462

N interesting tract of marshland near
A York, famous among naturalists as a sur-
vival from the Ice Age, has recently been
acquired as a Nature Reserve for Yorkshire.
Through the generosity of the Joseph Rowntree
Charitable Trust and of Sir Francis Terry, of
Middiethorpe Manor, York, Askham Bog passes
into the safe keeping of the recently formed
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union Trust, whose aim
to preserve certain areas of the county as sanc-
tuaries for rare wild life is furthered in notabie
fashion by this early acquisition.

Situated roughly three miles south-west of
York, on the left side of the road as one
approaches the old city from Tadcaster, the Bog
and its immediate surroundings of grazing and
arable land were threatened with suburban
encroachments. As result of the gift, naturalists
can now study without hindrance these 65 acres
of marshland whose fauna and flora hark back
to primeval times, while historians can rejoice in
the retention of an important link in a long chain
of events which, rooted in focal geography,
spreads gut over large areas of the north of
England. For Askham Bog is vestige of one
of those extensive glacial swamps or lakes that
made the Vale of York one vast fen and had
somehow to be bridged.

Boys of Bootham School, York, who delight
in being members of the oldest school natural
history society in the British Isles, conducted
a survey of Askham Bog in 1945, and their
Report, published a few months ago, throws
much new light on the habits of its occupants.
Birds in great variety haunt the undergrowth,
while the pools are fished by heron, mallard and
black-headed gull. Many species of butterfly flit
through the miniature glades of silver birch,
and here and there in sections named happily
by former naturalists—Chandler’s Whin, Nearer
Jungle, Farther Jungle, etc.—milkwort, water
parsnip, swamp bedstraw, saw-wort, wild basil
and royal fern add their charms to a great
profusion of plant life, Some time before the
17th century when the Bog was “'farmed”’ for
peat, its character was somewhat changed by
drainage, along with other factors; yet, rich in
plant and animal! life, it is still a recognisable
link with the time when early man crossed its
margins on higher ground to west and south-
west, or when the Romans bordered it on the
south-west with a road to Tadcaster (Calcaria).

The two strips of higher ground are crescen-
tic ridges—-terminal moraines of a great glacier
which served for centuries as causeways over
the far-flung swamps. One ridge now carries
the Tadcaster road, while the other sweeps round

COUNTRY LIFE--MARCH

A PREHISTORIC TR

Written and Illustrated by
G. BERNARD WOOD

14,

via Acomb and
Askham_ Bryan
with a secondary
road that joins the
Tadcaster highway
neat Bilbrough.

Just outside
York the ridges
converge, provid-
ing for the next
half-mile or so a
natural _ platform
for The Mount, and
then, after a brief
dip, for Micklegate
itself. On the
right of The Mount
is the Knavesmire,
now entirely
drained, of course,
but, like Askham
Bog, once sub-
merged, as the lat-
ter part of the name
(mere) suggests. From Micklegate the River
Ouse, which drains so much of the surrounding
country, is crossed at Ouse Bridge, and then
the ridge continues eastwards.

York owes its existence to this morainic
crossing. Thousands of years before the
Romans came, native tribesmen and invaders
crossed the Vale of York by this natural “ bridge,”
or by a similar one near Escrick, seven miles
down the river. At York, however, the gap to
be forded was narrower than that at Escrick,
and much of the trade and culture of northern
Engiand depended on this route through the
wastes.

Meanwhile, let us pause at Ouse Bridge, the
significance of which comparatively few people
recognise. The native trackways probably
came down to the river, at this fording-place.
Flint for weapons and tools, gold and jet orna-
ments, bronze work to be bartered for food,
Roman pottery—these and many other commo-
dities figured in the pageant of trade that this
crossing must have witnessed. The Romans
early saw the strategic value of the site, and in
A.D. 71 they began to build Eboracum (York) to
command this vital point in the great cross-
country route that linked the east coast round
Bridiington and Filey with the west coast at
the Ribble estuary. Characteristically, they
spanned the Ouse with a wooden bridge, siting
it, however, a few yards up-river where a landing
stage, reached by an interesting stone passage
(formerly one of York’s main streets) beneath

THIXENDALE, A YORKSHIRE WOLD SETTLEMENT, NEAR THE GARROWBY
SECTION OF THE TRADE ROUTE

1947

ADE ROUTE

ASKHAM BRYAN LIES ON THE FRINGE OF ASKHAM BOG

the Guildhall, marks the site to-day. But when
they evacuated the country, their bridge was
destroyed and trade began to flow again over
the old tribal crossing.

Ouse Bridge is almost a generic term in the
annals of York. The first stone bridge was
erected in 1180. In 1565, when an ice-jam
caused the two central arches of a later bridge
to be swept away, we find the Lord Mayor of
York appealing to Sir Martin Bowes, of London,
for help. Accordingly, Bowes sent Thomas
Harper, “the most expert workman that
aperteyneth to London Bridge,” and an
assistant who is to receive 2s, 6d. per day
“meat and drynk and lodgyng, and bootes to
stand in the water.’’ Thus the importance of
Ouse Bridge was realised even in London, but
Harper could not be spared for long. ‘‘ He can-
not be absent above one moneth,”’ wrote Bowes.

An interesting impression of this mediaval
bridge after its restoration, when the arches
were reduced in number, occurs in a stained-
glass panel at the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall
in Fossgate. Sea-going craft are moored at the
adjoining staithe (the Ouse was then tidal) while
they were being loaded with goods for European
ports. In an etching by Nathan Drake, dated

"1756, the bridge provides a fitting background
for ‘‘a Noble Terras Walk” lately laid out by the
Corporation on the east bank (Fulford side) of
the Ouse. Beaux and belles of Georgian society
preen themselves on the new promenade,
sublimely unconscious that it was founded on
the primeval morainic terrace along which early
tribesfolk would pause, fingering their bits of
finery perhaps, before crossing the Ouse. Inci-
dentally, this etching was reproduced as a
Christmas card design for 1946 by the York
Georgian Society. It is a pleasant reminder of
the surroundings of Ouse Bridge before the
present structure was built in 1817, on the same
historic site, by Peter Atkinson, architect.

The old tribal routes that led into York
from the east coast passed through or near such
places as Malton, Sledmere, Fimber, Garrowby
and Stamford Bridge. It is significant that,
centuries later, when Harald Hardrada, King of
Norway, sailed up the Humber and then the
Ouse to attack York, he withdrew to Stamford
Bridge soon after his victory, probably because
from this place he could command the two
morainic ridges, in other words the age-old
routes over the swampy Vale of Ouse by way of
York and Escrick.

Another rernnant of the marshland through

’ which the York section picked its way occurs in

the neighbourhood of Bolton Percy, near Tad-
caster, Not far from Askham Bog, though on
the opposite side of the York-Tadcaster high-
way (which the Romans lined with their tombs)
these marshes, or “hags’’ as they are called in
Yorkshire, were once sub: . Waterfowl
still haunt the wastes, as by ancient right, and

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH

14,

at Bolton Percy itself the marsh, thick with
reeds and willows, is spanned by a picturesque
wooden bridge resting on a Jong succession of
primitive trestles.

On the west of York, the Early Bronze Age
‘Trade Route, as it is usually called by arche-
ologists, went by way of Tadcaster, Adel (near
Leeds), Ilkley and the Skipton district, thence
through a remarkable bit of country known as
the Aire Gap, to Ribchester, Lancashire, Preston
and the west coast.

Thus effectively spanned, the neck of
northern England provided a direct route for
trade and culture between Scandinavia and
Ireland, which in the Bronze Age was ‘the
Eldorado of Western Europe.” Archzologists
have found abundant evidence of this cultural
movement; on the Wolds, for example, Bronze
Age food vessels have been unearthed that
closely resemble those of Irish workmanship,
also jet necklaces obviously made as replicas
of the gold lunettes of Ireland. Two gold
girdles, discovered at Yeadon, near Otley,
provide further evidence that points to the
introduction of beautiful ornaments and
fashions from Ireland via the Bronze Age gross-
country route,

An important Roman road, or series of
roads, follows the route for the great part of the

4 ROMAN MEMORIAL STONE FOUND
ON THE MOUNT, YORK
It depicts a funcral feast

way: Warburton’s map of 1720 refers to the
Roman road-system here, saying that “for the
most part (it) is visible, being paved with stone
throughout.” Since his day most of the stones
have disappeared,

Hills, not marshes, had to be negotiated in
this western section; a fine stretch of it confronts
me as I write, for my window overlooks Otley
Chevin, which carries the track high above
Airedale and Wharfedale. The Chevin makes
a romantic skyline, and when the imagination
peoples it with tribesfolk and invaders, travel-
ling workers in bronze whose craft may have
been learned in Bologna, and legionaries march-
ing to join the Lingones detachment which
garrisoned Ilkley (Oficana) during the third
century 4.D., it becomes a vivid touchstone of
history.

Beyond Ilkley and Skipton the old trade
route reaches a point comparable in geological
interest to the glacial ridges in the Ouse basin.
Just as the modelling hand of Nature accounted
for those features, so has it produced here the
Aire Gap. Kendall and Wroot in their Geology
of Yorkskire refer to the Aire Gap as “‘one of
the unsolved puzzles of Yorkshire geology. ...
As a Yorkshire river flowing to the Humber, the
Aire rises on the wrong side of the Pennine
axis.” The crossing place is very flat: not an
ordinary pass, but a kind of hummocky plain,
a mile or so wide and three or four miles long,
through which the infant Aire coming down in
meandering fashion from the Malham country
flows serenely on, unchallenged by Flasby
Fell and Elslack Moor, which seem, in fact, to
have stepped politely aside to let the intruder
through.

This strange configuration of the land
explains why Gargrave, situated in the mouth of
the Gap, proved so vulnerable during the
Scottish raids of the 12th century, when the
place had no fewer than nine churches looted and
destroyed in the general pillaging and was
relieved of much other wealth besides. :
““" Skipton Castle was built to guard this
natural corridor through the hills, just as, cen-
turies earlier, the Romans set up a fort (Burwen
Castle) at Elslack, overlooking the Gap on the
south to defend what was known then and for
centuries afterwards as the York Gate. Yet
the Romans, too, must have found defence
difficult. Nature had certainly ided a won-
derfuliy easy way through the Pennines, but the
price of it was exacted in the sacking of the
neighbourhood by wild hillmen in the 2nd
century and again 200 years later. One of the
burnt Roman villas was unearthed in Gargrave
about 100 years ago, and other discoveries show
that on both occasions the Romano-British
residents had to flee and find refuge in the caves
of Craven.

Nevertheless the Aire Gap was to prove

*a boon when the age of modern transport

1947

463

THE LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL RUNS THROUGH THE AIRE GAP

dawned, The original prospectus of the Leeds
and Liverpool Canai Company, dated ‘1766,
stated that ‘‘1t must be acceptable to the public
to be informed that a person with great industry
and application has: discovered an opening
betwixt the mountains of Yorkshire and Lanca-
shire which is the most eligible, if not the only
one, nature has formed for this important work,
and that a plan and estimate is in considerable
forwardness .. . of an entire navigable canal
from Liverpool to Hull."’ Naive? Yes, but
who was then able to tell the compiler of the
prospectus that the astonishingly convenient gap
through which the Leeds and Liverpool Canal
and the L.M.S. main line now run, had beer
found and seized upon long before, with equal
zeal and pleasure, doubtless, by prehistoric
peoples! For the story of the Aire Gap, and of
the entire cross-country route, is virtually a
re-discovery of our time. The hand-maidens of
geology and archzology have pieced the story
together gradually, so that it now reads like
@ romance. There are still a few missing
chapters, but the general route which the story
illuminates, if followed with the aid of good
maps and charts, provides for our generation
a fresh approach to some grand hill and vale
country, and a thrilling introduction to some
of the origins of our cultural heritage.

ROMAN “FACE” VASE OF THE 4th
CENTURY, FOUND NEAR THE MOUNT
EN 1936

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COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 14,

1947

WHY HOLLIES FAIL TO BERRY

By D. T. MacFIE

Wier do hollies fail to berry? It is a
perennial question and yet the answer is
so simple. Most hollies are dicecious
plants. In non-botanical language, they aresexed.
Their flowers are not hermaphrodite and are
' borne, male and female, on separate plants.
Plant female trees without a male and there is
no pollen to fertilise the ovules unless, and it is
always a possibility, insects carry it from
farther afield. Plant males without females and
there will still be no berries, though the entire
insect world should decide to work overtime.

It is strange that so many people are un-
aware of this trait in a universally grown tree.
The very fact that solitary specimens are so
seldom berried affords a clue. It is true that
nurserymen have not been helpful in their cata-
logue descriptions. Even in many of the more
specious productions of pre-1939 one finds Ilex
aquifolium, Golden Queen, the most common of
the golden-leaved varieties, described as sterile.
It is not. It is a perfectly good male variety
masquerading, or should one say suffering, under
a singularly inapt and ill-chosen name. Like all
other varieties with variegated foliage, it is
usually propagated vegetatively, so there is little
hope of a daughter in the family, and berry-less
itremains. Silver Queen is another unfortunate
male whose first devoted raisers had not the
patience to hold over its christening unti! such
time as it proclaimed its sex in the obvious
manner, and, ag though to complete the picture
of confusion, there is a female variety named
Golden King, which is coyly described as berry-
bearing.

The common holly, Ilex agutfolium, untike
these classical examples of ill-advised nomen-
clature, is normally raised from seed. As a
result its sex is not constant, and male, female
and bisexual forms are found, Two varieties
named Silver and Golden Milkmaid are examples
of variegated forms which can be either male or
female, but most of the special varieties, some
distinguished by unwieldy pseudo-botanical
names in addition to the simpler colloquial ones,
are one thing or the other.

The moral is obvious. When one is buying
hollies the nurseryman must be coaxed, or
bullied, into stating the facts of life as they
apply to each variety.

Here for guidance is a sexed list of some of
the best-known varieties: aliaclerensis, the
Highclere holly, male; camelliafolia, male;

crassifolia, the leather-leaf holly, female; crispa,

A VARIETY OF PERNETTYA MUCRONATA WITH ROSE-COLOURED BERRIES

Such profusion of fruit is normal with staminate male plants to provide pollen

the screw-leaf holly, male; Donningtonensts, the
Donnington holly, male; ferox, the hedgehog
holly, male; Fiskeri, male; flavescens, the moon-
light holly, female; fructo duteo, yellow fruited,
female; Golden Milkmaid, male and female;
Golden Queen, male; Handsworth New Silver,
female; Mundyi, male; ovata, male; scotica,
female; Silver Milkmaid, male and female;
Silver Queen, male; Smithii, male; Watereriana,
male; and Wilsont, female. “:

It is quite a simple matter to determine the
sex of established treea, The flowers are small,
but if a pocket glass is used the secret is out.
Normal flowering time is May and June, and the
dull-white, fragrant blossoms will be found
clustered in the leaf-axils.

Ruscus aculeatus, the butcher’s broom, so
popular as a dyed foliage plant at Christmas-
time, is another plant with this peculiarity.
Berries are seldom seen on it, for the female
seems to be uncommonly hard to come by. In
many ways, ruscus is an astonishing plant.

(Left)

Though termed a shrub by most gardeners, it is
only shrub-like, for its stems are not really
woody. It is, in fact, a member of the lily
family—-akin to asparagus—and, like the latter,
throws up new stems from the base. Then again
its leaves are not leaves: they are flattened
branches resembling leaves and performing the
same functions, and are more correctly termed
cladodes. The persistence of the evergreen
cladodes is the reason for its popularity as a
winter decoration, for they hold on the stems
much longer than do true leaves.

The flowers are also remarkable in that they
are apparently borne in the centres of the leaves
and on a cursory examination appear to be
stalkless. Again, first appearances are decep-

tive; examination with a glass will show that
they are actually borne in the leaf-axils, but that
the stalk is united with the midrib of the leaf.
euscus is a useful shrub apart from its value
for cutting, for, unlike most evergreens, it will
grow in really dense shade, but for berries one

A YELLOW-FRUITED HOLLY NAMED ILEX FRUCTO LUTEO

GOLDEN MILKMAID, A LOVELY BERRYING VARIETY HAVING
GOLDEN-CENTRED LEAVES WITH WAVY MARGINS

COUNTRY LIFE— MARCH

must first find a source of sex-attested
fernalea

Until 1ts peculiarity was recognised
there were many disappomtments with
Pornettya mucronata Quite a number of
people attracted by its brightly coloured
bernes im shades ranging from white
through pink to purple found that the
plants réfused to in ther own
garden Examunation of the flowers did
not necessarily provide the answer for
the flowers may well be structurally
hermaphrodite and yet be functionally
feminine Luckily nurserymen have been
less coy with pernettyas The female
berrying varieties have been described
as such and they have bestowed on the
certifiably vine male plant the name of
P mascula The latter 13 certainly virile
Just one or two bushes will serve the
needs of a large female plantation

Pernettyas have the reputation of
being left untouched by birds and they
do seem to be safe from the average run
of garden visitors but I can vouch for
the fact that pheasants find them very
much to their liking Twice I have known
quite large plantations stripped in a

THE HIGHCLERE HOLLY ILEX

ALTACLERENSIS This vigorous
large leaved vanety 1s a non berrying
male

about a man who walked in his garden
early one morning and found a unicorn
there He ran into the house and woke up his
wife crying Theresa unicorn m the garden !
Pooh! she satd (or words to that effect)
Everyone knows that the unicorn 1s a mythical
monster The man went ont again and offered
the umcorn a lily which it ate Then he
returned to his wife and assured her There
Teally 1s a unicorn in the garden It ate a lily
This tzme his wife not only said Pooh! but
added that her husband was a booby and she da
good mind to have him taken away to a booby
hatch He looked agam mm the garden but the
unicorn had gone so he went thoughtfully to
the telephone and (we may suppose that he
smiled a wicked little smile as he did so) rang
up a psychatnst Shortly afterwards the
psychiatrist armved at the house with two
formidable henchmen The wife told them
eagerly My husband has gone crazy He
actually umagines there 1s a unicorn in the
garden Have you ever heard such non
sense? saidtheman Everybody knows that
the unicorn 1s a mythical beast The psychia
tmst nodded to his henchmen who seized the
woman and carried her off to the asylum The
moral of the story according to Mr Thurber
is Dont count your boobies before they are
hatched

Jaen THURBER tells a ternble story

* * *

But it seems to me that it has another
morat ag well 1t 1s a dreadful warning against
saying Pooh! AndIam reminded of it because
of a rather extraordinary statement that I read
the other day in an article about Gilbert White
He was not a very good naturalist asserted the
writer because he was too credulous Asan
example of his foolish credulity the writer gave
his behef im that old wives tale about the
hibernation of swallows and martins which
prompted him to waste his time every autumn
looking for ther winter quarters polong his
stick into old thatch and even digging up the
mud at the edge of ponds in search of hiber
nating Asvundinida

What a fantastic notion! said the critic
scornfully but I am inclined to think that it
would have been even more credulous of Gilbert
White if he had believed on the strength of the
evidence then available the apparently more
fantastic notion that the birds flew away to

just as Izaak Waltons theory of the
spontaneous generation of eels for which sub-
sequent wnters have mocked him was far easier

rae ey

ON SAYING ‘‘POOH!”’

to believe in 1650 than the incredible truth
about that 3 000 mules journey to the Sargasso
Sea However thatis by the way for my point
1s that a little healthy credulity on the part of a
naturalist 1s an excellent thing and that science
has lost more than it has gained through the
readiness of learned and self assured experts to
say Pooh!
= * »

There s a funny butterfly in my garden
said a young lady to an expert 1n butterflies in
July 1945 It looks a bit like the pictures
Ive seen of the Bath white He was too
polite to say Pooh! but he delsvered a short
lecture instead The female of the orange tip
he said which incidentally dear lady wears
no orange tips 1s dappled on the underside and
may easily be mistaken for a Bath white when
at rest It is remarkable that you should have
seen one so late in the season A few days
later a dozen Bath whites were reported m the
neighbourhood and before that angus mirabilis
of butterfly migration was over no fewer than
650 specimens of the very rare vagrant were re
corded from various places in Southern England

There 1s a similar story about an ornithol
ogist An old labourer told him that he had
shot acrane Ah yes said the ormthologist
with a patronising smile I know that you
people always speak of herons as cranes The
true crane alas 1s extinct in England A few
days later he happened to be passing the
labourer s cottage and the old man seeing him
said Ili show thee that crane if thee ll come
round to the back It was very high (it was
much too far gone to make a stuffed specimen)
but 1t was certainly a genuine crane Megalornts
grus I suppose it 18 remotely possible that it
was a migrant which had fallen sick on passage
for passage cranes certainly fly over Britain
though at such a height that they are beyond
the range of our eyesight Much more likely it
had escaped from a private park or zoo «But
an any case it would have looked very nice in
@ glass case in the ornithologist s collection if
only he had possessed a trifle of credulity

*_ * *

One more story against the pooh poohers
and then I have done It 1s the remarkable
story of the snake with legs and a very fine
field naturalist of my acquaintance tells it
against In his youth he says Queen
Victoria. was on the throne the universe was
fixed and stable Huxley and Darwin had
written the last word about Evolution and tbe

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temarkably short time and by a very
few pheasants For my own part I would
hesstate to name any berry as one that
birds will not touch One hears contin
ually that this or that species 1s left alone
but opposite instances are unfailingly
cited from other parts of the country
and even from near by gardens The
palates of birds vary too much as do our
wn to allow of generalisations I would
confess too that I number myself among
those enthusiasts who would cheerfully
concede the birds a better title to the
decorative fruits of a garden than
myself Strawberries and raspbernes
are a different matter With them the
interests of both parties are identical
and there are after all no ornithological
ration cards but netting 1s a simple
matter and a part and parcel of good
gardening routine
Bullinches in the spring are the
most infuriating and therefore least wel
come visitors Once started on fruit buds
they seem to become imbued with an urge
to destroy—an urge that ws not wholly
accounted for by hunger The time
honoured remedy of black cotton strung
through the branches 18 the best I have
yet found Scares have always proved
useless for familiarity of even a few days
standing has been sufficient to engender
a healthy contempt on the part of
the finches

2 By JOHN MOORE

Origin of Species and there was no longer
Aliquid nous ex Africa or anywhereelse Sowhen
an ignorant farmer s boy told him that he had
seen a snake with legs he begged leave to doubt
the story laughing heartily and explaimmng that
the creature was not a snake but either a newt
ora lizard It was very long rotested the
ignorant boy Come come ° said the natur
alst I dont suppose it was more than 81x
mches{ The boy shook his head and went
sadly away The years went by the naturahst
grew older and wiser and it came to pass that
one day as he was walking he encountered
another ignorant country youth who declared
that he had seen a snake with legs Ah said
the naturalist A newt perha: and then
he hesitated Where did you see it? he
asked
In the farm yard Its still there
The old man followed the boy to the
farm yard and when he got there he saw a
snake with legs It was he says an anatomist s
nightmare 1t was enough to make a Darwinian
think he had DT for 1t lay there in the bright
sunshine of high noon a large grass snake with
two sizeable legs which moved feebly and
actually propelled it for an inch or two while
he watched He looked more closely at those
legs and then he recognised them at once for
with the aid of such webbed feet he had studied
ad nauseam the circulation of the blood during
his medical student days They were the legs
of a frog
It must have been a large and exceptionally
powerful frog Having been swallowed whole
and feeling no doubt as terrified as Jonah mm
the belly of the whale it had struggled so
fiercely that 1t had pushed two of ts legs through
the snake s oesophagus whence they protruded
like two oars pulled by slaves in a galley
dragging the monbund anake along
So you see says the old naturalist
how unwise it 1s for a scientific man to be too
cocksure There 1s a thing called philosophical
doubt which 1s admirable but it should be
diluted with courtesy cunosity and credulity
im equal proportions I was discourteous to that
farmers boy forty odd years ago and I hope
he ll forgive me for :t and if I had been more
curious and a bit more credulous I should have
been a better naturalist than Iam Then he
adds with a mischrevous smile In my old age
I am moving I think 1n the direction of funda
mentalism for I no longer find anything
inherently unprobable in the story of Jonah and

the Whale,

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH

14,

1947

TO SWITZERLAND BY CAR

HILE carrying out tests of the new
Healey car (as described in the last issue),
é during a recent visit to the Continent,
I obtained much information of value about
road, hotel and general conditions. For those
who feel that our present austere life is one from
which to escape whenever possible, I can think
of few tonics to equal a motoring tour in
Switzerland.

To enjoy the country to the full, and to
get to know the people who live there, a car is
certainly the ideal means, but for those who
prefer to reach Switzerland either by rail or air
there are excellent hire-car services available,
many of the cars in use being British.

While in Switzerland I covered practically
the entire country, missing only that part that
lies south of a line drawn from Martigny, along
the Rhéne valley, to the Furka Pass, and then
east to Liechtenstein. Not only were long fast
runs done on the good main roads, but secon-
dary and minor roads also were tried. Our
principal stopping-places were Zurich, Basle,
Berne and Geneva, but from each of these
centres extended excursions were made into the
surrounding countryside. As a centre for
touring during the spring or summer, my
choice would be either Berne or Zurich. Of
these, Berne is, I would say, the more typically
Swiss, while Zurich can offer the advantages of
being truly cosmopolitan. Both Basle and
Geneva suffer, as motor-touring centres, from
being tucked away in corners, so that much
time would be wasted covering the same
roads more than once. I found the roads

in an excellent state of repair throughout
the country, and the standard set by the sign-
posting is one we might well copy at home.

Petrol is unrationed, and a very good grade
of alcohol fuel is available everywhere at 3s. 9d.
per gallon, The deficiencies of our own pool
petrol are well known, though by now we are

IN OBWALDEN, BETWEEN ENGELBERG AND THE JOCH PASS

By J. EASON GIBSON

almost accustomed to the incessant pinking that
accompanies any effort to use our car’s per-
formance to the maximum. The fuel in France,
which must contain a large admixture of kero-
sene, is even worse, so the pleasure to be got
from driving again on a clean and efficient fuel
can be imagined. The garages struck me as
being exceptional. Every workshop I inspected
was an example of what it should be : polished
tools neatly stored, and the operatives in clean
overalis, On more than one occasion I observed.
clients’ cars coming in for repairs, and in no
case were they permitted in the workshop until
the car had been thoroughly washed.

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In many European countries to-day it is
unwise to stray too far from the main roads, for
a variety of reasons. In Switzerland I found
that even on the most minor road one could be
sure of finding petrol pumps and cheerful ser-
vice, and, almost as important, welcoming hotels
and food such as we have only dreamt of during
the last seven years. On one occasion, a navi-
gational efror on the road between Basle and
Berne entailed crossing the mountains by a
timber haulage road. We had visions, momen-
tary but none the less unpleasant, of missing the
large midday meal to which we had by now
become accustomed ; but a stop at a gasthaus in
a tiny hamlet produced a meal worthy of the
hungriest of men—which we were.

The only things for which coupons are
Tequired are soap and restaurant meals.
Coupons for both are provided by the authorities
at the frontier, and further supplies can always
be obtained through one’s hotel. There appear
to be unlimited supplies of cigarettes and
tobacco, and at prices much lower than those
in force at home, Many people will! probably find
it better to stay at an hotel that caters only for
bed and petit déjeuner, for then one feels freer
to explore. The pres-
ent currency restrictions
need not prove a barrier
to enjoyment. If, for
example, a party of
threesharesallexpenses,
it should easily be pos-
sibleto enjoy aminimum
stay of a fortnight in
Switzerland with a stan-
dard of luxury unknown
in Britain to-day.

For those interested
in motoring sport, there
are several events due
to be held in Switzerland
this season. The prin-
cipal events are: the
Grand Prix at Berne in
June, the Maloja hill-
climb in July, the
Montreux hiil-climb in
August and the Grand
Prix at Zurich in Sep-
tember. Ail these events
are listed in the Inter-
national Calendar, and
when I was in Berne
I inspected and drove
round the circuit, which
is in splendid condition.

s*@

Anexcellentservice,
little known to visitors,
although of great use to
them, is available on any
telephone throughout
Switzerland. By dial-
ling eleven one obtains
an accurate weather
forecast, for any par-
ticulararea, covering the
next 24 hours. The value
of this service when
touring can be imagined.
On one occasion when I
utilised itwe were having

severe mist and fog in Zurich, but the magic
number told me at what height the sun could
be found; a moment’s work with a map and we
were on our way to Triibsee and there spent the
day above the clouds, in brilliant sunshine.

Tt is, of course, wise to study the various
road signs before motoring in any foreign
country, but there are two in use in Switzerland
which cause some confusion to British motorists,
‘These are the signs before guarded and
unguarded level crossings. The sign for the
guarded crossing is a white triangular plate with
a red border, containing a simple drawing of
a gate. For the unguarded crossing the sign
is of the same style and colouring, but contains
a simple drawing of an engine. At crossings
which are unguarded great care should be
taken.

The one real problem about visiting Switzer-
land is, that unless it is carefully planned in
advance, the journey across France may entail
a certain degree of discomfort and incon-
venience. In view of the present shortage of
good hotels on long stretches of main road, par-
ticularly in what were the main battle areas, it
is essential to cross to France on a morning boat
so that one may get out of the war-damaged areas
before night. If one is travelling by the direct
route from Calais to Basle, via Belfort and
Mulhouse, suitable stopping-places will be found
at St. Quentin and Chdlon-sur-Saéne. If the

.crossing to Dieppe has been used the most con-

venient halts will probably be in the Paris area
and at Avalion. It should be noted that, at
Present, the Dieppe boat runs if accordance
with the tides, as the harbour has not yet been
fully dredged; so full enquiries should be made
before booking a passage. At the end of March
the S.S. Forde will restart the Dover-Calais car
ferry, on which it will be permissible to travel
with a full petro] tank. This service will arrive
at Calais at 1 p.m. Personally I would advise
against using the direct route through Belfort
and Mulhouse. Although the shortest in
mileage, it is neither the quickest nor the most
pleasant, for the roads in the Vosges mountains
and in the Mulhouse area slow one down con-
siderably and make driving rather a task.

My personal preference would be to cross
by the Dover-Calais route, and then travel com-
fortably to the Paris area for the night. Even
better than staying in Paris is to stop for the
night at one of the many good hotels to be found
outside the city, for example in the Fontainebleau
area. Apart from the fact that prices will be
more reasonable, the welcome and the standard
of service will be found to approach more
closely to those of pre-war France. With not
too, iate a start next morning, and following
route N6, {sometimes called the best-fed road in
France), one can easily reach Avallon for lunch.
From here there are two alternative routes :
either by way of Besancon and Pontarlier, and
so into Switzerland by the Neuchatel road; or
carrying on down N6 to Macon, and then by
Bourg to Geneva.

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Should a night be spent in Paris one
problem has to be considered if one’s time-table
is not to be disorganised completely. At the
Moment, owing to the electricity shortage, the
current is cut off in certain districts each day,
and it is essential te make sure that one’s garage
has other means of extricating cars than by an
electric lift. -

Finally, on disembarking at the Fretith
port, it is as well to call immediately on the
official responsible for the issue of petrol
coupons, as very often his supplies are limited.
Should you be one of the unfortunate onem'titd-
pelled to start the journey with less than: ‘the
full allocation of coupons, additional supplies
can always be obtained from a local petrol office
on your route. Full and up-to-date details of
these offices can be had from either the Ae.
or the A.A., and the chief petrol office in Paris
will also be found very helpful. .

COUNTRY LIFE— MARCH

14,

1947

467

PHOTOGRAPHING THE MARSH-WARBLER

The following article is contributed by a
fifteen-year-old boy at one of ouv public schools.
We ave glad to publish it, and congratulate him on
his interesting ‘observations on one of the most
attractive and least photographed of British birds.
Ep, “C,.L,”

HE reed-warbler is fairly widely dis-

tributed in this country, but the closely

related marsh-warbler has a very re-
stricted distribution. The Handbook of British
Birds states that it is known to breed regularly
only in the following counties:——Worcestershire,
Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset, Sussex and
Kent, and that its occurrence in other parts of
the British Isles is very sporadic and infrequent.
When, therefore, last summer the marsh-
warbler turned up in Wiltshire, I determined
to obtain photographs of the nest, eggs and
young, if possible.

In appearance the marsh-warbler is very
similar indeed to the reed-
warbler, so much so that an
acknowledged expert hesitates
to say which is which by sight
alone. The songs, however,
provide a clear distinction;
that of the marsh-warbler is
of great range and tunefuiness,
and the bird is a great mimic
of other birds, while that of the
reed-warbler has a much more
restricted range, and the bird
mimics other birds to a limited
extent only. :

It was as a result'of,this habit
of mimicking the songs of other
birds that our Wiltshire marsh-
warbler was discoverdd. Walking
beside an overgrown water-
meadow in a Wiltshire valley, an
observer heard coming from a
group of trees snatches of the
songs of blackbird, thrush, sky-
lark, swallow, greenfinch, chaf-
finch and reed-bunting, all poured
out one after another in that
order, with stretches of an excep-
tionally vigorous and brilliant
song. It was clear that all these
birds could not be in hiding in the
one group of trees, and the
observer's interest was at once
aroused. He was soon rewarded
by aclear sight of the bird, which
confirmed his suspicions. A
marsh-warbler had been seen in
Wiltshire again; the last report.
of one for this county was in 1922.

Last year’s bird was first seen on May 29,
but I did not see it until June 18. On that day
I sat for about an hour on the gate at the
entrance to the field where I knew the bird had
been seen before. This field was overgrown with
nettles, butterbur, meadow-sweet, marsh-
thistles, and a varity of reeds. At length I saw
the small brown marsh-warbler journeying to
and from a clump of reeds. With my binoculars
I could see that it was carrying pieces of dry
gtass in its beak.

Three days later I approached closer to the
spot where I imagined the nest to be. Moving
forward carefully, I parted the reeds and found
the nest completed, but without eggs. It was
slung between astem of meadow-sweetand a reed
stem by “basket-handles.” Here was more
evidence in support of our identification of the
bird as a marsh-warbler, for the ‘“basket-
handles” slinging the nest between only two
Supports are a distinctive feature of that species’
nest. This nest was built of dry grass, a little
moss and the seeds of dock; it was oval in shape
and tapered off underneath. The main weight
of it was taken by the meadow-sweet stem.
the basket-handle on one side being supported
by a side branch of the stalk.

On June 22 the first egg was laid, grey-
white blotches. of a darker grey. By

«June 30 four had been laid. I stood near the

By S. H. COOKE

nest and the hen went back and forth from it,
while the cock sang one or two snatches of song
from among the willows just behind the clump
of reeds in which it was situated, Neither bird
seemed to be disturbed by my presence. During
the next week I gathered together the materials
required for constructing a hide from which to
photograph the nest.

The date fixed for the photography was July
13, I took a schoolfellow with me to help to
carry the gear. We arrived at the nest at about
4.30 p.m. and at once set up the hide and camera.
After we had parted the reeds carefully I
concealed myself in the hide while my com-
panion walked back to the gate leading into the
field in order to make the birds think that there
was no one in the hide. Almost as soon as he was
out of sight the thrilling moment arrived as one
of the birds came quickly forward to the nest
and perched there less than a yard in front of
my peep-hole. It clung to the supporting reed-
stem, fed the young, and then darted away in

THE YOUNG MARSH-WARBLERS CRANE THEIR

the direction from which it had come through
the reeds behind the nest.

During the time 1 was in the hide the parent
birds only once used the meadow-sweet stem as
a@ support when feeding the young, and never
sat on the edge of the nest while doing so. After
the young birds had flown the nest was examined
and it was found that it could be moved up
and down comparatively easily on the one side
by the “‘basket-handle”’ slipping over the reed-
stem support. Many times it was blown by the
wind to acute angles to the vertical. When this
happened, the young crouched down in the
bottom of it. They also did so when direct
sunlight shone on them.

In the first hour ‘of my watch the parent
birds visited the nest only four.times. I became
just as impatient as the young birds, which
stretched out their necks and opened their beaks
whenever the wind blew the nest slightly from
side toside. When the parent birds did come and
go they moved very rapidly indeed. I managed
to obtain some good views of them, however,
and noticed their brown colouring, white throats
and slender, flesh-coloured legs and feet.

Gradually the visits grew more frequent—
eventually as many as three in five minutes.
The food brought to the young consisted mostly
of amall adult insects, but once the cock brought

a small green caterpillar. On one occasion the

’ cock stayed a little Jonger than usual at the

nest, raising and lowering his head-feathers
and flufiing out his throat-feathers. The hen
seemed more upset at the presence of the hide
than did the cock. While the cock fed the young,
she spent a good deal of the time in scolding
the hide while sulking in the reeds a foot or two
behind the nest.

The excrement of the young was grey in
colour and was carried away from the nest by
the parent birds. This I witnessed three times
during my spell in the hide. Once the cock took
away the excrement without first feeding the
young. Once or twice the parent birds inspected
the hide within a foot of my face, I could
always tell when a parent bird was coming by
seeing the tops of the reeds sway under its
weight as it approached the nest. The parent
birds never fed the young after flying direct
to the nest. The hen fed the young and then
stayed for a longer time than the cock. She
spent much of the time peering into the nest.
More than once I saw both parents approaching

NECKS EXPECTANTLY AS THE COCK
"ARRIVES AT THE NEST. (Right) THE HEN SPENT MUCH TIME PEERING INTO THE NEST

with food, but they never both came to the nest
atthe sametime. .

When the young were six days old they
were still very ugly. They made a few almost
inaudible squeaks when they were about to be
fed, and once or twice they uttered a slight
squawk when they were impatient with waiting
for the parent birds to come and feed them.
The noise of the shutter of my camera disturbed
them, and when I made an exposure the parent
birds moved rapidly away from the neat and
waited, watching the hide.

Later I had trouble with my camera (the
winding-on gear jammed) so I had to pack up
for that day and return to school to open the
camera in a dark-room and make the necessary
adjustments. I left the hide up in position by
the nest, intending to ¢ontinue taking photo-
graphs the next day. But the next day it
rained, and in the end I was compelled to dis-
mantle the hide and to abandon the idea of
taking more photographs.

While standing near the nest after I had
taken down the hide I saw the hen feed the
young three times, apparently quite unafraid
and tame, and the cock uttered a good burst of
song from a spot near by, with its beak full of
food for the young. The young flew on July 20.
They were seen twice after that, and both times
they were trying to balance on the reed stems
with the aigrof their short, stubby tails.

468

PAINTED
STAIRCASES

at 8, Clifford Street and 76,
Dean Street, London

By CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY

Photographs by
Dr. F. Gernsheim

Thomas Walker, creator of the part of
Macheath in The Beggar’s Opera, was first
occupant (1729) of the former; Captain John
Hamilton, R.N. (1735), of the latter.

T is rare to find important Georgian mural
paintings intact in private, or what were
private, houses in London. A good if

small example was destroyed when 11, Bed-
ford Row was bombed. Portions of the stair-
ease painted by Hogarth for his father-in-
law, Sir James Thornhill’s house, 75, Dean
Street, have been in the Victoria and Albert
Museum since the house was demolished in
1913. One of the two now illustrated is in
the house adjoining the site of Thornhill’s,
and that master or a pupil of his Academy
was, I think, the painter of the staircase of
8, Clifford Street, Bond Street.

This house, of which the first occupant
was the creator of the part of Macheath in
The Beggar's Opera, Thomas Walker, faces
down. Old Burlington Street, and gives little
indication outside of its magnificent contents.
It has lost its front door, the ground floor is,
or was, a tea shop, and is occupied as offices
by J. Lyons and Co., by whose courtesy these
photographs were taken. Savile Row and the
adjoming streets were laid out on the land
behind and belonging to Burlington House
between 1717 and 1733, Many of the houses
were designed by the Ear!’s architects,

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 14,

1.—8, CLIFFORD STREET. Ceiling of staircase

Leoni, Campbell, Flitcroft, Kent, and by his
lordship himself. Miss Bishop, City Archi-
vist, informs me that the Westminster Rate
Books give the earliest occupants of the
Clifford Street house (originally No. 6) as
Thomas Walker, Esq. (1729) ; Stephen Skinner
Esq. (1749); Lord Pomfret (1770).

Thomas Walker, aged 30 in 1729, had
been making a reputation in tragedy and
cémedy at Drury Lane since 1715. Macheath,
however, was his greatest original part, for
which Gay no doubt selected him on account
of his dashing appearance and the fact, as
Rich said, that he was the only actor at that
time who could both sing and speak well. His
name's first appearance in the Rate Book in

2.—EAST WALL OF STAIRCASE, 8, Clifford Street

1729—the year following the production of
The Beggar's Opera, when he was at the height
of his reputation—establishes that he invested
some of his now large salary from Macheath
and other principal and original parts in
setting himself up in a new house in the most
fashionable modern quarter of the town.
Consequently the house must often have been
visited by Gay, Lavinia Fenton, and the
dramatists in whose plays he subsequently
acted, including Fielding, Madden, and Mrs.
Haywood, besides the young men of fashion
who courted him and encouraged him in the
dissipations that led to his ruin and premature
death in 1744.

The occurrence of his cypher T.W. in an
angle of the coved
ceiling of the painted
staircase makes it
clear that he com-
missioned this decor-
ation even if he did
not, as he well may,
have the house built.

The entrance gives
direct into the stair-
case hall in which the
ascent begins in the
opposite right hand
corner and doubles
back along the east
wall and over the
entrance. The stairs
(Fig. 6) are of stone,
with very rich wrought
iron balustrade and a
panelled dado, grained
walnut picked out with
gilding, above which
the walls and ceiling
are painted in oil col-
ours direct on the
plaster.

The colouring is
bistre monochrome,

lightened with gold.
The design consists of
simple architectural
treatment up to first-
floor level, serving as
base for Corinthian
pilasters dividing the
Space above into com-
partments and sup-
porting a modillioned
cornice ing the cove,

on Which a dome is

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 14,

3.—DETAIL OF A MEDALLION BETWEEN
THE PILASTERS

represented with four arches on its sides containing
urns (Fig. 1). The two main compartments between
the pilasters on the east and west walls are each filled
by a large roundel within a wreath. That on the
east (Fig. 2) is supported by Michaelangelesque titans
crouching on Baroque scrolls and encouraged by
artistic putti—I mean, each infant holds some
emblem of the visual arts. On the west wall
(Fig. 5) there is not space for the titans, but there is a
delightful group of putti symbolising sculpture and
engraving (Fig. 4). The roundels depict with much
vigour episodes connected with Artemis, perhaps as
representing triumph by night (west wall, Fig. 5),
and, I take it, Aphrodite on the east wall, while
Athene the wise and witty presides from a niche
in the north wall. The narrower spaces between

4.—ARTISTIC PUTTI, BELOW ROUNDEL
ON WEST WALL. The painting of the staircase is
attributed to the School of Sir James Thornhill, 1729

5.—WEST WALL OF STAIRCASE

6.—THE FOOT OF THE STAIRCAQE, 8, CLIFFORD STREET

470 COUNTRY LIFE— MARCH 14, 1947

the pilasters contain gold arabesques with further emblematic
medallions (Fig. 3).

The general treatment and handling of the figures suggests
to me the secondary decorative parts of some of Thornhill’s
larger works—parts that may sometimes have been painted
for him'by an assistant. In 1728-29 Thornhill had recently
completed murals at Moor Park, over the payment for which
he had a lawsuit with Styles, the owner, and was copying
the Raphael Cartoons at Hampton Court. He also had a band
of pupils at his Academy in Old Queen Street. That he made use
of the Academy for his own purposes is shown by the story (told
by Whitley) of Thornhill's getting Gibson, when Assistant
Governor of the Academy, to pose and draw models in attitudes
required by him for figures in the Painted Hall ceiling at Green-
wich. .Had the muscular titans in Fig. 2 a similar origin?

This important and historic decoration has considerably
deteriorated since these photographs were recently taken. The
ceiling has almost perished and there is a large crack in the east wall.

No. 76, Dean Street has been occupied for a century by
Messrs. Joseph Clark and Sons, Ltd., leather merchants. The
Rate Books show that the houses on the west side between
Richmond Buildings and Meard Street were small and of low
rateable value till 1728, vacant in 1729, not assessed 1730-32,

7—16, DEAN STREET. FOOT OF STAIRCASE

and had probably therefore been pulled down. At Christmas,
1735, No. 76 re-appears as a large house in the name of James
Hamilton, (7th) Earl of Abercorn, F.R.s.

The mid-Georgian front and panelled interior are well
preserved, and the painting of the staircase hall is remarkable
as containing maritime scenes. The stairs themselves are
admirable solid carpentry (Fig. 7), and the lower part of the
walls is rendered in brown channelled masonry. Above a
painted cornice occur Roman ruins beyond which, on the north
wall, lies a fleet at anchor (Fig. 8). The south (landing) wall
has received a later dado which covers the lower part of the
hull of a line of battleship seen against a windy sky (Fig. 11).
The late Sir Geoffrey Calendar, to whom I showed the photo-
graph, described this painting as in a class by itself and well
worthy of study, the vessel ag probably of early 18th-century
build, but m&de no suggestion of the artist. The whole decor-
ation is a little crude, the large ship almost certainly by a
different hand from the other walls.

There can hardly have been a direct connection between
these unusually nautical scenes and the seventh Earl! of Aber-
corn, an authority on magnetism and fellow author of a treatise

8.—MARITIME SCENE ON NORTH WALL, 76, DEAN STREET

9.--ROMAN RUINS ON WEST WALL

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 14,

on harmony with Dr. Pepusch (who handled the
musical side of The Beggar's Opera, and thus pro-
vides a link with 8, Clifford Street). Besides, Lord
Abercorn died, presumably at his own house, in
Cavendish Square. But his second son, John, was a
sailor, promoted lieutenant in March, 1736, who in
the following December greatly distinguished himself
by his gallantry in the wreck of the Louisa, lost
while she was escorting George Il from Hanover.
Presurnably the Earl took a lease of No. 76 for his
promising naval son, and had the staircase painted
with appropriate maritime scenes. Then John Hamil-
ton had the landing wail adorned, possibly by Peter
Monamy, with one of his ships, perhaps the ill-fated
Louisa. He is described as a man of rare humour and
originality. At his suggestion the 40-gun Kinsale was
fitted with canvas screens instead of bulkheads for the
cabins, and thereby enabled to carry heavier armament
than was usual, an innovation repeated for him in
the Augusta, 60 guns, in 1743. According to the
Dictionary of National Biography, his humour bubbles
up in his official letters, as in one that he had
occasion to write in the Augusta complaining of the
marines’ clothing. He begged their Lordships to
“examine the enclosed pattern which, with great
management, I have contrived to cut off, fresh and

10.—ENTRANCE, 76, DEAN STREET

entire. . . . They (the marines) are miserably ac-
coutred and, properly speaking, miserably fleeced.
They really put me in mind hourly of Sir John
Falstaff’s recruits.” This fine officer was drowned
in 1755 when ‘his long-boat, returning to the Lan-
caster at Spithead, overturned on striking the tail of
the shoal since known as Hamilton’s Shoal. His
posthumous son was eventually the first Marquess
of Abercorn.

Meanwhile (1742) he was succeeded at No. 76
by a certain Jonathan Cope, Esq. Neither his name
nor Hamilton’s explains the riddle presented by the
fine marble chimney-piece, with Kentian overmantel,
in the first-floor front room, and in the frieze of which
is an admirably sculpted relief (Fig. 12). It repre-
sents the well-known legend of the Stanley family
(perpetuated in their crest) of the finding of an infant
heir in an eagle's nest, whither the raptor had carried
it in its cradle. ;

The room, ‘proudly cherished, to-day contains
noble rolls of hide, the pungent smell of which per-
vades the house. That at the back is still the pro-
prietors’ parlour (Fig. 13) and maintgins unchanged its
character, with portraits and furniture, of the time
when the Clark family “lived over their business.

12.—RELIEF OF THE STANLEY LEGEND. Chimney-piece medallion in first-floor
front room

13.—THE PARLOUR, 76, gpEAN STREET

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COUNTRY LIFE- MARCH

14,

1947

A PAINTER OF THE) UNDERWORL

By DENYS SUTTON

OULOUSE-LAUTREC was one of the

most fascinating personalities of an age

that abounded in curious characters, and,
as his posters and lithographs recently on
exhibition at the Redfern Gallery in Cork Street,
W., revealed, his art has lost none of its vitality
and appeal. He was one of those curious
painters who arrive without predecessors and
depart without leaving followers, unless it be, in
his instance, the early Picasso. His work
reflected much of the spirit of his age, yet the
twist he gave it was singular and individual. By
birth an aristocrat, he had no need to care for
public opinion or to seek support for his ideas.
The impregnability of his position was
important, perhaps, in determining the direc-
tion of his art; it enabled him to paint with
superb self-confidence and gave him, as it were,
an essential objectivity. He was always the
spectator, immersed, but not involved, in the
scenes he chose to record.

He made no concessions to current tastes or
to convention, Though he sometimes painted
racehorses and outdoor scenes, his major theme
was the relationship of man to his environment.
He was the faithful guide to the subterranean
life of Paris, to that underworld which fascinated
and tempted so many writers and painters of
the period. For all the freshuess and vivacity
of his colour, his paintings always suggest the
hectic, hot-house atmosphere of night life. The
curtains are, we feel, shut against the daylight,
and the hiss of the gas lamps can be heard. He
is the artist of the interior—not the sunlit rooms

of Bonnard or Matisse, but the flushed excited ©

scenes of the cabaret and the bistrot. His is
a world that lives from dusk to dawn.

He viewed this curious world with a fixed
and determined attention. The dancers, demi-
mondaines, bullies, jockeys and coachmen who
crowd his canvasses neither shocked nor particu-
larly amused him; they had their natural,
inevitable place in society, and as a result were
recorded in his work, None has rivalled him as
a chronicler of the amusements of Paris. At
one moment he could describe the intense con-
centration of Jane Avril in the midst of her
dance, or the delicious May Belfort, or the pre-
datory glances of the men and women at the
Moulin Rouge; on another occasion he could
suggest the sudden relaxation of the dancer after
her number or the yawn of the professional
amuser stifled by a laugh.

Lautrec’s art formed part perhaps of the

reaction against the imposition
of middle-class standards upon
life. In his passionate interest
in the bizarre and the eccentric
he was very much of his age.
Yet, though many of his con-
temporaries shared his attitude,
he was alone in his refusal to
compromise. He was determined
to paint what he saw, what
interested him, and what he
knew best. In England, Beards-
ley had assuaged a taste for
morbidity by translating his
thoughts into a representation of
the manners of another period;
Lautrec looked at what lay
around him. His attitude had
in it very little of the dilettante
or the dandy. He was a realist,
though as one of his friends well
said, he was never imprisoned
by reality. We do not feel with
his work, as we are inclined to do
with Octave Mirbeau’s extra-
ordinary Journal d’Une Femme
de Chambre, that the realism
is distorted to achieve the effect.

Lautrec, though subjecting
his themes to the necessary
translation into artistic terms,
never obtruded his own person-
ality. His realism was natural
and unadulterated. His art
tefiects no desire on the part of
the cripple to find compensation ;
it has no sadism about it, not
even satire. It shows simply
the desire of a man of the
world, who had no surprises left
and few illusions, tu leave a2
record of a fascinating and in
teresting side of humanity. Le
vrai artiste, Tristan Bernard
once wrote of him, ne iravaille
pas dans un tour d’ivoive. Il se
proméne a travers Uexistence sous
le déguisement de son aspect
physique, sa personalité gardant
Pincognito.

_, The sharpness of Lautrec’s
vision was paralleled by the
intensity and directness of his
art. One of the most vehement

(Right)
POSTERS

(Left)
MLLE. MARCELLE
LENDER
(a lithograph)

of draughtsmen, he had the power of
being able to suggest the depths of
a character in a scurry of lines, in a
rapid sketch. But he could not
only assess character, he could dis-
cover the artistic possibilities of a
subject. He was one of the few
artists for whom the subject was
important, not as an excuse for
anecdote, but as an inspiration. His
ability to contrast and to juxtapose
colours was considerable. He was,
as the Gallery exhibition
illustrated, a master designer of post-
ers, In his Divan Japonais, for
instance, the superb contrasts of

black, yellow and orange are offset by the
evocative power of the black gloves which

suggest the personality of the singer. We
receive an exquisite sense of understanding the
characters involved, as well aga satisfaction
from the exact placing of the figures and
the rhythmic notes of the composition.

" Dites ce que vous avez a dive,” said Lautrec
to one of his friends. That is what he himself
so well succeeded in doing. Courageously, relent-
lessly and gently, he enshrined in the superb
freshness of his paint, in the strict impartiality
of his line, the image of the fascinating, half

Paris of the ‘nineties. This world of
tinsel and of glitter will live in our memory by
reason of the personality and vitality of Lautrec.

COUNTRY LEFE—MARCH 14, 1947 473

A KENSINGTON PALACE TABLE

By R. W. SYMONDS

"| = world has many hiding-places for works of art. A painting by an old
master sometimes makes its appearance in the market after it has lain un-
detected and unvalued for perhaps a hundred or more years since last
it was recorded, With furniture, owing to its bulk, this event is less frequent,
but still many collectors have experienced the luck of finding the companion to a
table or looking-glass of which they already possess a single specimen. The table
illustrated is an example of a long-lost table again coming to light. In Buckingham
Palace is a table of exactly similar design that originally came from Kensington
Palace. In Pyne’s Royal Residences there is a plate of the Queen’s Gallery at
Kensington Palace which depicts four of these tables standing against the wall.
Mr. Clifford Smith in his book Buckingham Palace comments on the extant table
and mentions that the whereabouts of the other three are unknown. There seems
very little doubt that the table illustrated, which is identical (except for the small
metal mounts of a design of a grotesque mask decorating the frieze) to the Bucking-
ham Palace example, is one of these missing tables.
When and for what reason this table left the royal possession and where it
has been for so long undiscovered are questions that are likely never to be
answered, The design of the table with its elegant curved legs, with carved orna-
ment in high relief, and terminating in hoof feet, suggests a date of the reign of
George I. On reference to the Royal Wardrobe Accounts it appears that there
were many items supplied by the royal cabinet-makers for Kensington in that
monarch’s reign.
John Gumley and James Moore, who were the cabinet-makers to the Crown
at this period, were possibly the makers of these tables, although in their bills in the
Roya] Wardrobe Accounts there appears no item that from its description would
allow it to be identified as relating to them.
Although in Pyne’s drawing of the Queen’s Gallery there are only four tables
shown—three on one side of the central chimneypiece and one on the other—there
were possibly six; three on each side of the chimneypiece, as Pyne’s view did
not take in the entire length of the gallery.
It is more likely that the omission of the metal mounts in the Buckingham
Palace table are due to their removal than that the mounts on the table illustrated
are later additions. The cabriole leg terminating in a hoof font is similar in character
to the legs of the contemporary walnut chair which was described as having an
“India back.”
Gumley and Moore supplied walnut and japan furniture and numerous looking-
glasses to Kensington. Palace between the years 1715 and 1726. The following are
a few of the most interesting items taken from their bills that relate to Kensington:
1718. For fitting up all the walnuttree and inlaid work that was brought from
Windsor being much out of repair, £9,

1721, for a Wallnuttree Desk & Book Case w'* pillars £10 For a large Wallnuttree
Scrutoire for his Maties Great Closett £27 for a very large hanging Glass in
4 Glass Frame for Ditto Closett £120

1722. for a fine Ombre Table lined wt? green Velvett & trimed w'h gold Lace &
gilt nailes And two Ditto’s lined wh green Cloth for his Maty’s Service 215

1723 For 4 Large gilt Lusters at £25 Each £100 . bene P

On the death of James Moore in 1726—he died owing to injuring his head by
a fall while walking in the street—William Turing succeeded to his place + cabinet-
maker to the Crown with John Gumiey. :

WALNUT TABLE WITH MARBLE TOP IDENTIFIED

AS ONE OF FOUR FORMERLY IN THE QUEEN'S *

GALLERY, KENSINGTON PALACE. Attributed to John
Gumley and James Moore, cabinet-makers to George I

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wat os oe a remeron

DETAIL OF CORNER AND LEG

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14,

1947

A MID-WINTER’S TALE

By MARJORIE SCOTT JOHNSTON

delight. You have to be driven demented

by the housing shortage and the negatives
of the local authority to attempt it. We have
been driven demented ; it is not an unpleasant
feeling. Outside this tin and plywood box, as‘I
write, the east wind howls, ‘the whaups are
crying,’’ a quarter of a mile of knee-high snow
lies between us and all mankind, there is con-
densation freezing, as inside a refrigerator, on the
insidecornersof our roof. In spiteof the delightful
fug we have created, there is a four-inch icicle
hanging in the little wall cupboard we use as a
dressing table. Wery amusing—-so long as it
doesn't thaw. But it will, one day.

Under these conditiohs, priority goes to
keeping warm. It is surprisingly possible. We
tell anxious friends who are writing daily like
expectant heirs that our grandmothers were
Esquimaux, and anyway the technique of the
high Alpine hut, acquired in happier days, can
now be put to practical use. We are not both-
ered by gas and electricity cuts; we have only
three feet of water-pipe to cherish, Compared
with those of the city dweller, the sharer of
other people’s kitchens and bathrooms, our
blessings amount to a satisfactory total.

* * *

Blessings. To experience the profundity of

epicurian delight, one must abstain for a while.
‘Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.’
Try washing in a small basin for a week, and
then go to a hotel, ora friend’s house, and soak
yourself in a hot bath up to the chin. Life
has few pleasanter sensations. It does not
appear to be within human capacity to derive
deep enjoyment from habitual! pleasures, (My
husband gets bored with trout. He once had it
every day for three months. Boiled, fried,
grilled, curried, devilled--one could die of a
surfeit of cream).
‘Or from habitual! sights. In the city one’s
eves grow glassy, myopic, red-veined. They
sink into the skull. The dead grey stalks and
tangled willow branches in the marsh below
us are reborn for a new, illuminating moment,
transfigured with an evanescent loveliness,
Here is a backcloth for The Snow Queen more
full of artifice, more cunning than Bakst or
Massine at their most fantastic. Alongside is
the main road, unfamiliarly white and broad-
ened, and tinged with the pale blue and violet
shadows that properly belong to high snowfields
just after sunrise.

This vision, bursting like a celestial star-
shelf on the unexpecting mind, holds many
memories, but now we have only to step outside.
It lies a]i around us; it does not have to be
deliberately sought on holidays and at week-
ends. Our eyes come forward again and find
excitement. In this greater simplicity of living,
we have discovered a new world, or, perhaps,
we have rediscovered the old world.

“8 8

Yet, this simple life is not as simple as it
might appear to one coming upon us tressed
in slacks and many jerseys which in smarter,
cuupon-free days we should have given to
tramps, and eating bread and cheese and
onions; or as it may be to the mobile, summer-
holiday caravanner whose simplicities are really
simple because they exist for an arbitrary and
voluntary period only. We, trying to farm 14
acres of land without so much as a broken-
down barn in which to put a camp-bed and a
brazier, find the days much too short for all
that has to be done in the caravan alone, For
instance, it is hardly credible that it takes as
long to put a box, 16 feet by 6 ft. 3 ins., to rights
in the morning as it took to dress a compara-
tively large London flat. Here everything over-
laps. It is a Chinese box, with the kitchen
inside the dining-room, the bathroom inside
the kitchen, the bedroom overflowing the
kitchen, and the sitting-room enclosing all.
One does not waste much time walking from
one room to another, and what you have for-
gotten to bring with you you can stretch out

Cotstiene. You's in mid-winter ismadmen’s

your arm and reach. But there are physical
convolutions involved. One cannot move fast
or clumsily, or without previous thought, Two
people cannot be within the same box at the
same time. One acquires perforce elegance and
precision of movement. Otherwise, disaster.
And it seems possible to mislay a letter or a
key or other vital object more successfully in
a small space than in a large one.
**._* ©

There are, in fact, at least three different
types of caravanner. There is the prototype—
the nomadic gypsy who, like the snail, carries
his home more or less whither he will—a jaunty
Rococo home singing of the South and the East,
of fairs and of canal barges, whose exterior, at
least, condemns the modern, streamlined,
jozenge-shaped trailer for the sham it is. I
always stare at those exuberant shanties on
wheels as they pass with their dingy, but some-
times proud and gay, and always strangely
foreign inhabitants. Though it is, perhaps,
social, and certainly quite usual, in England to
condemn them as useless unwashed vagabonds,
surely they have a point of view of some value
in this age of uniformity. They are rebels;
they are anarchic. If only we were not so
supercilious about them, if only we would listen
to the voice that speaks in their music (seeds
whose flowers are a Granados, a de Falla, a
Kodaly, a Liszt) and observe with humility
the way a gypsy woman wears a scarf, and the
colour of it, I confess I have only met one
gypsy personally. He bore a famous name and
had cashed in on his birthright. It seemed to
me, perhaps unfairly, that he was too good to
be true, that his eye was too bold, his hair too
black, his eccentricities of dress too carefully
conceived. There are some things one should
not sell. Most gypsies sell only wild flowers and
clothes pegs and kettles, and a bit of blarney
to gild the pill. We, who have taken to our-
selves their principal idea, wish them the good
fortune they claim to see in our hands. Does
the charm still work, I wonder, if one crosses

their palm with a cupro-nickel coin? How
degenerate has our alchemy become.

Secondly, there is the holiday caravanner.
I have never indulged in this kind of holiday.
its advantages are too obvious to enumerate,
but, for a housewife, it involves too many
chores, and one cannot take a van to the shores
of Loch Coruisk, or up a glacier, or even cross
the Stye Head Pass in one. Chacun a son gottt,

Then -there is our kind—the caravanner
de necessité—inhabitants of a utility lozenge
Masquerading as a temporary “pre-fab” for
tho e who are not eligible for government
houses and not rich enough to pay £4,000 for
@ cottage worth £800. We had to pay nearly
£800 for a reasonably weatherproof caravan
before the Chancellor kindly took the purchase
tax off this kind of housing the other day,
Unfortunately, if you have a family, working
life as a caravanner would not be tolerable
unless you had two caravans, or a weatherproof
shed into which to o erflow. In which case,
better wait for some sort of house. A caravan,
winter or summer, is a pis aller, anyway. We
have built ourselves a shed into which to over-
flow. It is an architect's nightmare. Some day,
no doubt (for we have pessimistically built it to
Jast) it will be labelled “quaint.” At the
moment it is merely invaluable.

* * *

And a van does not make a good farm-
house. There is no room to put the forms, for
one thing. Perhaps, on the other hand, this is
an advantage. It is, at any rate, an excuse. It
may, intelligently handled, be proof against
any weather, even though the only cure for
condensation is a throngh draught, and when
the east wind is blowing we prefer the con-
densation, or a stove which takes up about
eighty per cent. of indispensable cupboard space.

As for trying to get a fruit farm started,
that is another story for which one might
borrow the title Heartbreak House. “That
title from a better man I stole, Ah, how much
better had I stolen the whole !”’

POACHERS, OLD AND NEW

By LOUIS QUINAIN

F late years, chiefly because of the meat
ration, those who “ trespass in pursuit of
game and rabbits” have appeared in the

village constable’s note-book oftener than they
did before the war. There is the poacher of
tradition whose methods are older than the
Police Force itself, and there is the newcomer,
the professional who helps to feed the Black
Market. As a policeman I have had dealings
with both. .

One would think that those who have been
at the job longest would be the most difficult to
catch, Unfortunately this is not so. The
methods of the Black-Market agent are smarter
and up-to-date; he may use a motor-car with
false number-plates or a collapsible shotgun that
is well on the way to being noiseless; while the
old-timer sets out, either on foot or a pedal cycle,
with his snares, nets and ferrets—perhaps even
with a catapult. It is not often you see him

- with a gun; it attracts too much attention,

especially when carried on the highway Even
with innocent sportsmen who can produce their
game- and gun-licences the policeman fears that
some law or other may be broken.

. * ad

The first complaint I ever had about pro-
fessional poachers was early in 1943, A farmer
telephoned to report that half an hour earlier he
had noticed someone loitering in one of his
fields. The intruder was a good distance away,
but, curious to know what was happening, the
farmer fetched his field-glasses to watch, The
man, a stranger, appeared to he shooting
rabbits, yet the odd part was that each time he
bowled a rabbit over there was no sound from
the gun. Naturally the farmer went after him,
but no sooner had he started crossing the field

than the man took his gun to pieces, tumbied
them into a bag, and made off through a wood.

The incident struck me as being rather
comic at the time, for it seemed that here was
a@ poacher with original ideas. However, the
events that followed made me think differently.

Now such are the poaching Jaws that if I
had caught this man I could not have arrested
him, since the job had taken place during day-
time, Under the Game Act of 1831 and the
Poaching Prevention Act of 1862, we have no
power of arrest unless the her assaults us
when we stop and search him, or refuses to give
his name and address and to produce his game-
and gun-licence. We can seize any poaching
implements, except dogs and ferrets, found in
the poacher’s péssession, and then proceed
against him by summons, but when a poacher is
on private property we have no power to go to
him on our own; we must either be accompanied
by the property-owner or an employee of his, or
wait until the culprit reaches the highway.

But the Night Poaching Act of 1828, under
which this man was arrested later, operates
differently; not only has the constable the power
of arrest, but so too have the property-owner and.
any of his employees. They may also chase the
poacher and arrest him in any place in which he
may seek refuge. For the purposes of the Night
Poaching Act night-time begins at the “first
hour after sunset’’ and ends at the “ beginning
of the last hour after sunrise.”

o* «©

A few weeks later I had word from a bailiff
who was in charge of some 1,000 acres that his
head game! x had seen two men enter a copse
and that he had a pretty good idea what they
were up to. The bailiff had already put severa

COUNTRY LIFE--MARCH

estate-hands to watch this copse until the police
arrived,

It was late afternoon, about an hour before
sunset, when I arrived at the scene with my
colleague from the next village, and, though the
copse was only a small one, little did we guess
how long the job was going to take; as it hap-
pened this was a blessing, for had it been other-
wige we should have had no powers of arrest.
We hunted the copse twice without success, and
it was well past the “first hour after sunset’’
when one of the estate-hands declared he could
hear suspicious movements up a fir-tree. He
was right, too! Apparently the poachers—
there were two of them-——as soon as they found
the hunt was on, had hoped to escape by hiding
aloft, After shining our torches into the tree
from various angles, we at last spotted them.
Very soon twigs were snapping, branches

14,

shaking, and down they came. It was the most
unusual arrest I have ever made.

Later we discovered that one of the
poachers was the man whom the farmer had
seen weeks previously. It was a pleasure to
relieve him of the collapsible shotgun—an
ingenious weapon which we had to forward
immediately to Crime Bureau at headquarters.
Both these men came fram London and were
wanted for poaching offences over a wide area.
They were sentenced accordingly.

The old-time poacher is still employing the
methods used by his forefathers at the time when
the Night Poaching Act was passed. We know
how we stand with him; and I doubt very much
if he has ever been caught hiding himself up
a, tree after sunset. Asa Tule he sclls his catches
locally. Even so, there are occasions when it is
difficult to keep upsides with him.

1947

475

I remember that once a colleague from
a neighbouring village was engaged to keep
observation, in plain clothes, at a certain public-
house on my beat where we knew that poachers
had recently made a habit of “trading.”” My
colleague had not been stationed in the district
long, so I felt sure that no one would know who
he was. He spent several evenings there, but
had no luck, Not long afterwards he was
setting out for an early-morning patrol and
found a brown paper parcel on his doorstep.
Inside were a couple of rabbits, together with
a note scrawled on the flap of an old cigarette
packet. ‘A little present,” the note read, “and
we hope there's no offence,"". The message, of
course, was unsigned.

Evidently one of the old-timers was smarter
than we had bargained for. His last word, too,
seemed a little ambiguous,

THE TRIAL TEAMS => A Golf Commentary by BERNARD DARWIN

HE lists of those invited to play in the

Walker Cup trial matches make very

interesting reading, and everyone must
congratulate the Selectors on the trouble they
have evidently taken. They have cast their net
very wide, for I must admit that there are seven
or eight players in the list of whom—-more shame
to me no doubt-~- I had never heard, and another
half-dozen or so whom I have never seen play.
Several of those whose names were unknown to
me, and, I suspect, to a goad many other people,
come from Artisan Clubs, and that is natural
because they do not have many chances of
playing away from home, !t is all the pleasanter
to see that so many of them will now get that
chance of giving their proofs, If some hitherto
mute, inglorious Mitchells can be found among
them, so much the better for us, for it is very
certain that we shall want the best that we can
get.

The Selectors have chosen sixteen players
with the clearest claims to ultimate considera-
tion who are to play in the final trials at St.
Andrews. In addition, they have chosen two more
lots of sixteen and eighteen respectively, who
will take part in preliminary trials, the North-
erners, broadly speaking, at St. Andrews,

UPUPUPUREP UU PUPOUULOU UNM

FOX
OMETHING’S astty in the sycamoyve copse.
Moving so stealthily under the trees.
Footfalls as light as a leaf when it drops.
Pattering sofily, down-wind with the breeze.
Something aloof, yet a part of the glade,
Threading a way through the undergrowth rank
Lithe, with a wariness keen as a blade,
Muscles aripple on shoulder and fiank.
Something's atop of the boundary wali,
Scanning the world with a basilisk stare,
Crouching so still, might be nothing at all-—
Something has vanished. Was anything there?
7 Epric Rorerts.
PUP PUP RAUNT UPUPU UNUM

and the Southerners at Deal. Those who dis-
tinguish themselves in these two trials, will
be added to the number of the elect for the
final one. The fitst sixteen are thus like those
who come into a high jump competition at. let
me say, § ft. 6 ins., while others have been
struggling over lesser heights. Or, to alter the
similitude, the players in the preliminary trials
are like those who go in for an examination,
knowing that after the first two days a certain
number will be rejected by the hard-hearted
examiners, while their happier brethren go for-
ward to a severer test and the dreaded viva
on the last day. It should be added that the
Selectors have left themselves a locus poent-
tentiae a8 regards certain unnamed players,
whom they have deliberately left out, because
they will have other apportunities of seeing
them in tournaments, of which the Halford
Hewitt Cup at Deal is one that comes readily
to mind. Altogether the scheme appears to be a
good and carefully thought out one which will
commend itself to everyone.

There is not a great deal to be said about
the elect sixteen, because their names are in the
main those that would have occurred to anyone.
It is pleasant to see four names from Treland :

Bruen and Ewing from our victorious side of
1938; John Burke, a Walker Cup player of
earlier years; and Carr, who won the Open Irish
Amateur Championship at Portrush, and im-
pressed all the good judges who saw him. Burke
is comparatively vencrable, having been born
in 1900, but he is a strong man, and essentially
afine natural golfer, with a swing likely to serve
him well for a long time, and I am glad that no
excessive desire for youth has excluded him,
As to many of the others, the Selectors have, as T
suppose, judged to some extent by the unofficial
international between England and Scotland
played last autumn at Western Gailes. 1 saw
that match and take leave humbly toagree with
the Selectors’ choice. The two young men from
Lancashire—Bell, who was first amateur in the
Open, and White, who played so well at Birk-
dale—both confirmed at Western Gailes the hopes
formed of them carlier. The three young Scots-
men, Dewar, Wilson and Williamson, all did
well there likewise, and there is one player,
K. G. Thom, who, 1 should say, owes his place
in the sixteen, and most deservedly, to Western
Gailes. IT¢ had not been reatly convincing in
the English Championship even though he
reached the final, and had disappeared almost
at once at Birkdale, but in this international
he showed to anyone with cyes to sec what a
fine game he possessed both actually and poten-
tially. Since then 1 believe he has been studying
under Cotton at Monte Carlo, which must have
been good for him. Beyond doubt there is a
game in him that not many people have got,
and I hope it will duly emerge in the final trials.
* * *

Now to turn for a Moment to the two
preliminary trials. In both these lists we find
the names of some who are still obviously
good, but seem either to have slipped back a
little or perhaps, merely through the fuck of the
game or the lack of opportunity, have not been
quite so prominent as of old. At St. Andrews,
for instance, there are Gordon Peters, one of the
bright, particular stars of the 1938 team, and
S. L. McKinlay. always a beautiful player and
not so very old, though a member of earlier
Walker Cup sides. There is D. H. R. Martin,
who seemed emphatically coming back to his
pre-war self in the President's Putter at Rye.
There is likewise a name not very well known
but which delights me, as 1 know it stands for
good golf, that of K. T. Thomsen, now of Elie,
who was captain of the Cambridge side in_the
early ’30s. I am equally glad to see in the Deal
match the name of P. H. F. White, who was
Thomson's foursome partner. The thought of
the pair of them makes me feel colder even than
usual, because I remember halving a foursome
against them at Worlington on the coldest day
on which I ever played golf, wearing more
clothes than I had hitherto believed compatible
with golf at all. Here are two goud golfers.

At Dea) will be two whose proofs want, 80
to speak, a little furbishing or renewing, A. A.
Duncan and H. G. Bentley. Duncan was dis-
appointing at Birkdale because his normally
beautiful putting for once forsook him, but he

layed very well when Jast I watched him at
Worplesdon, though even then he occasionally
disgusted himself over a short putt. He is

clearly one of those not to be left out except
after much searching of heart, and if the job
were mine—thank Heaven it isn’t—I should
want him, | think, at any rate for the foursomes;
so excellent is his temperament and his putting.
Benticy suggests himself as a possible foursome
player to anyone who saw the match at St.
Andrews in 1938. He was then the glue that
held together the partnership with Bruen, and
by halving their foursome against Fischer and
Kocsis those two laid one of the foundation-
stones of victory.

However, the most exciting part of the Deal
match will be for many people the first sight
of the formidable Artisan contingent: Ashmore,
Beacall, Sherlock, Dudley, Norman and Pratt,
The first three are from the north, and two,
Beacall and Sherlock. from Leasowe, not far
from Hoylake, in the old days the home course
of a very good player Mr. John Ball (2), as he
used to be styled to distingwish him from his
more illustrious cousin. The second three are
from Surrey, and Norman and Dudley in parti-
cular have already made considerable names for
themselves. How familiar some of them are with
sea-side golf I do not know, though the two
Leasowe men cleatly must be. To these who
PUPP PUPU PN OUPUP PUP

THE HARP PLAYER
WIIERE in ihe silence, windy, wild and high
Where mountains near and distant filled the
Skye
We listened breathless—smountains, birds and I.

It was no orphean strain, no Dian's horn-—

But windy meindy, remote, forlorn

From thin spined branches of blown thorn-trees
torn... .

There in that high hill land the harper played—
The tree-harps trembling with the tunes he made
While clinging birds in the tall grasses swayed.
HELEN B. G. SUTHERLAND.
PUPP PUMP PLA TUPUPUP UU

have not been brought up to it, it can be a little
puzzling, but to whatever kind of golf a man is
accustomed, he can still swing his club well or ili.
That is where it is a comfort to have Selectors
who will not be too much “hadden doun”’ by
results, but will form their own opinion of the
game that a candidate has in him. Results are
important and not lightly to be disregarded, but
they are not everything.

One very interesting player whom I should
like to watch at Deal (alas that I cannot be
there but shall be bathing in healing waters)
is $. M. McCready of the R.A.F., who plays at
Calcot, near Reading. He has, I am told, a fine
style and great power and potentialities, but. as
far as Y know, not much public experience. Deal
will certainly suit the powerful players, and it
is right that it should, because unless St. Andrews
has grown much faster than when I was there m
September, power will be needed there with a
vengeance. And so now we are “‘all set’ for
these researches, and I hope much treasure-
trove will accrue to the Selectors, for they
unquestionably deserve it. If there are gems
of purest ray serene in the dark unfathomed
caves of golf they have done their very best
to find them.

476

COUNTRY LIFE--MARCH 14,

1947

CORRESPONDENCE

HAVE ANIMALS A
SIXTH SENSE?

1R,---With reference to Major C. S.

Jarvis's recent remarks in CouNTRY
lars about animals, especially dogs,
possessing a sixth sense, the following
experience of a friend of mine may
interest your readers.

Early in 1944, before leaving
England, he decided to entrust his
terrier, to whom he was particularly
attached, ta the safe keeping of
his mother in Dorset. Some months
later, on September 4, after being
under fire for a considerable time, he
was severely wounded, and was sent
home, On arrival he was told that
during the day of the 4th his terrier

features that appeared in the Sunday
Times of March 2, Major Jarvis
quoted an episode involving an 18th-
century application of a law limit-
ing the number of horses to be
employed in any wagon or convey-
ance. The following extract from
4 Complete Guide for justices of Peace :
Part I, Laws relating to Jrustices of
Peace, by J. Bond, printed in 1687,
shows the precise provisions of this
Statute.

“No Travelling Cart or Wagon,
Carriage, wherein any burdens etc.
are carried, other then such as are
employed in Husbandry etc. shall go
with above five Horses at length. if
any draw with any greater number of
Horses or Oxen, they shall draw in
pairs, except one Horse, otherwise the

wagon teams that were fairly com-
mon in north Norfolk until about 1930,
but never seen elsewhere. They were
four-in-hand teams and unicorn teams,
ic, a pair with a single horse in the

lead.

ft would be interesting to know
if any of your readers have seen any
such teams recently.

In Wiltshire, Berkshire, parts of
Hampshire and parts of Gloucester-
shire, farm wagons with a pair of
horses abreast were common until
about 15 years ago, the usual tandem
heing seldom geen in those parts. Now,
however, they have quite disappeared.
During hay and harvest time many
of these old Wiltshire and Berkshire
wagons are used with only one horse,
the vehicles being noticeable for their

SWALLOWS ROOSTING ON TELEGRAPH WIRES IN THE MAIN STREET OF A MALAYAN TOWN

had been extremely restive, and just
before the time at which he was
wounded began to howl. It was
eventually calmed down after a short
while.

Was this merely a coincidence, ur
is the terrier’s behaviour attributable
10 its possessing a sixth sense ?—JOHN
WitiiaMs-Ei.is, Careg Felin, Port-
madoc, North Walas,

THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE
Str,—-Major C. S. Jarvis’s recent
references to thought transference
between wild creatures and human
beings remind me of a strange experi-
ence of my own, which T mention
because it seems the reverse of those
recorded by him.

Rather more than 25 years ago
when we lived in the south of Ireland,
we had a tame jackdaw, and one day
when I was going out in the pony-trap
and was about a hundred yards from
the house, I suddenly had the feeling
that “Jack” was in trouble and
wanted my help. This feeling became
so strong that, after some hesitation
and feeling a great fool, I turned back,
drove to the stables, and went in
search of him.

I shouted for some time about the
place and never heard him answer nor
saw him ; at last, at the end of the
flower garden, I saw a hawk rise and
fly away, and found " Jack'' with his
feet clamped to the ground amid a
quantity of feathers—his and the
hawk’'s. He was nearly done, but
Tecuvered after a considerable period
of speechlessness.—A. ‘TKNNYSON,
The Grange, Ingrave, Brentwood, Essex.

A LIMIT TO LENGTH

Stx,—In A Countryman's Notes, pub-
lished among the Country | Lirz

See letter: Swaltows Wintering in Malaya

owner shall forfeit forty shillings, one
third to the Surveyor, etc., another
to the overseers etc. to be levyed
by warrant of any Justice. 22
Car. 2.”

The inference would appear to be
that the length of the team, and noi.
the number of horses in it, constituted
the offence.

In another old manual for J.P.s,
Choice Presidents (sic) upon all Acts of
Parliament relating to the Office and
Duty of a justice of the Peace, printed
can be

in 1690, more information

found.—-1ANA Brown (Miss),

Doewra's Manor, Shepreth, Royston,

dlertfordshirve,

THE HERMAPHRODITE IN
HOLLAND

Six»--With reference to the Jetter in
Country Lire of January 24 about
the use in Norfolk of the farm cart
known as a hermaphrodite, in South-
west Brabant we also have this sort of
wagon.

Originally only carts were usel,
but with the introduction of artificial
fertilisers several years ago rotation
was changed, and more grain in clover-
hay (from temporary leys) had to be
transported.

Wagons were not known in that
part of the country, and so, by the
putting together of two carts, the
“trein”’ (train) as we call it, came into
being.-G. Koster, 19, Hoogeweg,
Bennekom, Holland.

TYPES OF FARM WAGON

$1r,--The recent correspondence about
the hermaphrodite reminded me that 1
have frequently seen an almost identi-
cal ¢) of farm cart in mid-~ and
south Suffolk, but never in Norfolk.
However, there are two types of farm

unusual width---a relic of the pair-
horse days.

I have seen only two three- or
four-horse timber teams since 1940;
one in Monmouthshire and one in the
Cotswolds.

Another district that still has
unusual local colour in these matters
is north Kent and the Medway val
where there are stil) farm impJeme:
of all types drawn by three- or fou
horse teams, which have nearly died
out everywhere else in the British
Isles,

Pembrokeshire ix unique among
all Welsh counties in that it is the
only one that has any four-wheel farm
wagons, the other counties in Wales,
in common with all Scotland, Ireland,
and the Isle of Man, having only
two-wheel farm carts. H. Wen-
sTER, 2, Park Hill Road, Harvorne,
Birmingham 17.

MENACE OF GREY
SQUIRRELS
sir,—During the recent extremely
cold spell small birds up and down
the country will have sutiered very
much and died by their thousands,
There is another menace that will de-
plete their numbers still further, name-
ly the grey squirrel, to the uecessity
of keeping down which you have

frequently referred.

I think T am right in saying that
there are about two hundred Grey
Squirrel Clubs in operation, mustly in
the southern counties, and that they
accounted last year for nearly 60,000
of these foreign invaders,

Between now and the coming out
of the leaves on the trees is the best
time to attack grey squirrels; while
the weather is still cold they are to
be found, on most occasions, in their

Greys and nests. These should all be
poked out with the help of a long pole,
and, if necessary, a ladder, and where-
ever occupants are found they should
be shot.

Most local War Agricultural Com-
mittees will support any effort made
te destroy these pests, and wil) be only
too willing to supply further informa-
tion. —-L. I. Horne, Frankham Dene,
Mark Cross, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

SWALLOWS WINTERING
IN MALAYA

Sir,—Malaya is a favoured wintering
resort of swallows, many thousands
of which arrive during September and
remain until March or April.

They select the larger towns in
which to pass the winter, presumably
because of the perching facilities
atorded by the telephone and electric
wires that run alung the main streets,
The native population of the favoured
towns regard the presence of these
birds as a good omen for the coming
year.

The accompanying flashlight
photograph was taken by me in the
town of Ipoh, Perak, and gives some
idea of the remarkable sight presented
by these swallows roosting in one of
the main streets-- CG. 2. Repway,
Greveliffe, Lower Warbryry Boad, Tor-
gintay, Deven,

THE FUTURE OF AN OLD
MILL

Sir,—T noticed recently an announce-
ment that “Soham Mill, one of the
last windmills in Kast Anglia,’’ is to be
demolished.

Although the eastern counties
abound with the derelict remains of
windmills, as a recent correspondence
in Counrry Lirz testified, there are
comparatively few mills still in a work-
ing condition. Only Jast year the
Delce Mill in Rochester, Kent, was
scheduled for demolition; and it now
appears that Suham Mill. although J
temember seeing it working in 1945,
is also to be pulled down.

Cannot some steps be taken ta
ensure the preservation of these relics
of a bygone England, especially in
these times, when the countryside is
being altered so rapidly ?}—Pxter
Coarp (Sergt.), RA. Tangmere,
Chichester, Sussex,

THREAT TO A MOUNTAIN
SHRINE

Str, - Apropos of the Editorial Nutes
about training areas in your issue
of March 7, | wonder if your readers
Tealise that the lovely little church of
Partrishow, Brecon, with its incom-
parable carved rood screen, which
formed the subject of an article
A Mountain Shrine in Countey Lire
January 4, 1946, is now under sen-
tence, inaymuch as it lies within an
area that the War Office proposes to
take for training purposes.

The county of Brecon is apparent-
Iv being made tu sacrifice some 16 to
7 per cent. of its total area, including
same of the most beautiful valleys
and farm-houses in Wales. - FRENE
RAncLitrt; 8, Hin Row, Hampstead,
NLW.3.

WHAT IS A GROUND
FROST?
Sir,—-Without in any way being
critical of your reply ta the question
“What is a ground frost?” published
in your issue of February 7, I should
like to suggest the following answer,

A ground frost occurs when the
gtound ts cooled by radiation (loss of
heat by rays, or diffusion) or by lower-
ing of the temperature of the air in
contact with it so as to reduce its tem-
perature to 32° F. or below. When
sufficient cooling occurs owi to
radiation, the air immediately above
the ground is cogled, and if it is

476

COUNTRY LIFE--MARCH 14,

1947

CORRESPONDENCE

HAVE ANIMALS A
SIXTH SENSE?

1R,---With reference to Major C. S.

Jarvis's recent remarks in CouNTRY
lars about animals, especially dogs,
possessing a sixth sense, the following
experience of a friend of mine may
interest your readers.

wagon teams that were fairly com-
mon in north Norfolk until about 1930,
but never seen elsewhere. They were
four-in-hand teams and unicorn teams,
ic, a pair with a single horse in the

lead.

ft would be interesting to know
if any of your readers have seen any
such teams recently.

SWALLOWS ROOSTING ON TELEGRAPH WIRES IN THE MAIN STREET OF A MALAYAN TOWN

had been extremely restive, and just
before the time at which he was
wounded began to howl. It was
eventually calmed down after a short
while.

Was this merely a coincidence, ur
is the terrier’s behaviour attributable
10 its possessing a sixth sense ?—JOHN
WitiiaMs-Ei.is, Careg Felin, Port-
madoc, North Walas,

A LIMIT TO LENGTH

Stx,—In A Countryman's Notes, pub-
lished among the Country | Lirz

See letter: Swaltows Wintering in Malaya

owner shall forfeit forty shillings, one
third to the Surveyor, etc., another
to the overseers etc. to be levyed
by warrant of any Justice. 22
Car. 2.”

The inference would appear to be
that the length of the team, and noi.
the number of horses in it, constituted
the offence.

In another old manual for J.P.s,
Choice Presidents (sic) upon all Acts of
Parliament relating to the Office and
Duty of a justice of the Peace, printed
can be

in 1690, more information

found.—-1ANA Brown (Miss),

Doewra's Manor, Shepreth, Royston,

dlertfordshirve,

THE HERMAPHRODITE IN
HOLLAND

Six»--With reference to the Jetter in
Country Lire of January 24 about
the use in Norfolk of the farm cart
known as a hermaphrodite, in South-
west Brabant we also have this sort of
wagon.

Originally only carts were usel,
but with the introduction of artificial
fertilisers several years ago rotation
was changed, and more grain in clover-
hay (from temporary leys) had to be
transported.

Wagons were not known in that
part of the country, and so, by the
putting together of two carts, the
“trein”’ (train) as we call it, came into
being.-G. Koster, 19, Hoogeweg,
Bennekom, Holland.

TYPES OF FARM WAGON

unusual width---a relic of the pair-
horse days.

I have seen only two three- or
four-horse timber teams since 1940;
one in Monmouthshire and one in the
Cotswolds.

frequently referred.

Between now and the coming out
of the leaves on the trees is the best
time to attack grey squirrels; while
the weather is still cold they are to
be found, on most occasions, in their

Greys and nests. These should all be
poked out with the help of a long pole,
and, if necessary, a ladder, and where-
ever occupants are found they should
be shot.

SWALLOWS WINTERING
IN MALAYA

Sir,—Malaya is a favoured wintering
resort of swallows, many thousands
of which arrive during September and
remain until March or April.

THE FUTURE OF AN OLD
MILL

Sir,—T noticed recently an announce-
ment that “Soham Mill, one of the
last windmills in Kast Anglia,’’ is to be
demolished.

THREAT TO A MOUNTAIN
SHRINE

THE SINGLE-STOREY ORANGERIES AND TWO OF THE FIRST SPRING FRAMES OR GREENHOUSES AT THE

COUNTRY

LIFE — MARCH

14,

477

BOTANIC GARDEN

AT OXFORD; FROM THE OXFORD ALMANACK FOR 1766. (Right) THE TWO-STOREY BUILDINGS IN THE GARDEN AS THEY
ARE TO-DAY

Sce letter: Orangerias that Grew

lowered below that of its dew point,
the moisture (water vapour) is
deposited in the form of a white
crystalline deposit, known as ‘“‘hoar
frost’"—if the dew point is below
32° F. H, however, there is little
water vapour in the air near the
ground, and the cooling of the ground

A SWISS GIRL SPINNING WOOL FOR
MAKING CARPETS
See letter: Spinning Wool in Switserland

is insufficient, no condeusation takes

place, although the temperature
of the ground may be below
32° F., and a ground frost, which in

this instance is often known as a
“black frost,’’ still results.

The criterion of a ground frost is
that the ground achieves a very low
temperature, i.e. between 30°-32° F.
or lower, but only the air just above
it is affected. This normally occurs
only at night, in autumn and winter,
but occasionally in the spring in this
country, and the frost normally dis-
perses during the day owing to the
sun’s heating, whether seen or not.

A ground frost is of particular
danger to young crops, e.g. eatly

tatoes, strawberry plants, and so
orth, as it may occur quite late in the
spring or early summer without
Tegard to the general temperature
experienced during the day. Con-
ditions favourable for its formation
are sky clear, no clouds (or about
iwo-tenths—-not more), little or no
wind, and these usually occur during
fine spells.--M, C. Pascoe (Com-
mander, R.N., Ret.), Southcot? House,
Weare Giffard, North Devon.

ORANGERIES THAT GREW
Sin,—-All readers of Country Lirz
who are {nterested in — matters
from cratigeries Thich were originally

one-storey
indows than

modern greenhouses. But I think the
two illustrations enclosed may be of
particular interest.

One shows the orangeries or
houses for “tender greens’” (to quote
an old description) in the Botanic
Garden at Oxford, as they were in
1766, together with early frames on
either side of the Danby
Gate. The other photo-
graph was taken recently
and shows the present
state of things; the
structure of the orangerics
proved so sturdy that
another storey could be
built above, and the for-
mer orangeries, plus this
addition, now house the
herbarium, laboratories
and library of the Uni-
versity’s Department of
Botany.

I am_indebted to
Magdalen College for per-
mission to photograph
the ‘Almanack head of
1766 in the College
Library.—]. D. U. Waxp,
Berkshire.

SPINNING WOOL
IN SWITZERLAND
Sir,—In these days of
mass production it is
always good to encounter
handicrafts that are hold-
ing their own. In the
village of Spruga, on the Swiss-Italian
«frontier, I found several of the village
girls spinning wool on a_ primitive
treadle spinning-wheel. The wool is
coarse stuff, and the resultant yarn
is used for carpet-making. Output
may not be great, but such an
occupation for spare moments brings a
useful addition to income.

The girl depicted in my photo-
graph is wearing the wooden clogs of
Ticino, the originators of the modern
wedge heel—Doveras Dicxins, 19,
Lambolle Road, Hampstead, N.W.3.

CHEST OR BEDSTEAD ?
Six,—-The enclosed photograph of the
whole front of the piece of furniture in
Hambleden Church, Buckinghamshire,
of which only a panel is shown in your
issue of January 17, makes it difficult
to see that it formed any part of a
bedstead. :

In Records of Buckinghamshire
(1903), Mr. J. C. Fox described the
chest, as it seems to have been, and
referred to the very similar heraldry
displayed in carving in similar fashion
at the Vyne near ingstoke. which
‘was built early in the 16th century by
William, first Baron Sandys, who was
very intimate with both Wolsey and
Foxe.

A tomb in Hambleden Church
bearing the Sandys Arms is probably
that of Henry, son of the second
Baron, who died during his father's
lifetime, leaving a widow, Elizabeth,

who later, for her third husband,
married Ralph Scrope of Hambleden,
also buried in the church. Probably
the chest reached the church coming
from the Vyne through these con-
nections.—Epwakp Yass, Elm Court,
Marlborough Road, Hampton, Middle-
Sex.

(The theory that this carving
formed part of a bedstead is guardedly
supported by the Victoria County
History and the Report of the Royal
Commission on Historical Monu-
ments. On the other hand, there is
weighty expert opinion in support of
its having formed part of a chest,
though how it can have done so is not
quite clear. It would appear to be of
a date about 1525.—Ep.]

KESTRELS IN LONDON
Sir,--With reference to the recent
letter about a kestrel having been seen
over Piccadilly, one day last autumn
1 watched from my office window a
pair of these birds hovering round and
alighting on the top of St. George's,
Hanover Square. At about the same
time a pair were to be scen near Ken
Wood, on Hampstead Heath_—Nortr
LoNnvDONER.

THE WEARING OF
YARKS
Sir,—] was greatly interested in
Major Jatvis’s reference to yarks in
your issue of January 31, but some-
what surprised to learn that he had
not seen a yark for nearly forty years.

EARLY

TUDOR PANELLING

1 can assure him that this practice of
tying the trousers in below the knees
is still employed by quite a number of
agricultural labourers, road workers
and the like (chiefly veterans of the old
school) here on the Hampshire-Surrey
border, more especially on the Surrey
side.—PxrreER Mrcnazt, 56, Cranmores
Lane, Aldarshot, Hampshive.

IN NORFOLK

S1x,—I was very interested in Major
Jarvis’s remarks on yarks, In Norfolk
many of the older men stil] favour this
fashion, using straps instead of string.
Originally these straps were known aa
yorks in these parts.

1 have always understood that
the reason for their use was to keep
the legs warm; moreover, by drawing
the trouser Ieg up slightly they gave
greater freedom tothe knees. Demand
for york straps is now very small,
but this has been brought about by
the gencral use of water-boots, I think.
—GrERaLD G. Cook, Market Place,
Derehum, Norfolk.

MYSTERY OF THE
SCENTED MUSK
S1xR,—-May I reply to your comments
an my letter about the mystery of the
scenteu musk in your issue of Feb-

ruary 7?

Careful tabulation shows that the
scented musk disappeared not sud-
denly but very gradually between the
first reference in 1878 and the last
(‘the ghost of the old scent”) in

HAMBLEDEN
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Sea letter: Chest or Bedstead?

IN CHURCH,

478

1928 (a period of about 50 years),
both reported in R.H.S. lectures.
Some plants, it is true, retain
their scent when propagated by seed.
Others sometimes do not, e.g. helio-
trope, as I found when I followed up
a letter in Country Lire in 1944.
Carnation growers sometimes find the
same fading when propagating by
seed. It seems to depend largely,
though not entirely, on Mendelian
Law and on which parent strain is
dominant. But it was also due, in the
musk, to contributory causes, e.g.
carelessness or ignorance in propagat-

HOPPER FOR SAWDUST BURN-
ING FURNACE. A, Sawdust;
B, Perforated Base; C, Draught;
D, Furnace
Sea iether: Running on Waste

ing by seed and by insects cross-
fertilising from many wild unscented
plants; the introduction of more
popular, showy plants which took the
place of musk plants; introduction of
gas in dwelling-rooms; severe winters;
aad $0 on.

All these causes, which have been
duly checked by the opinions and
experience of reliable persons, were
among the additional factors I
referred to as also contributing to the
disappearance of the scented musk
plant in England.—Epwarp F. Gray,
Ripple Hall, Tewhesbury, Gloucester-
shire.

LINKS WITH THE
GUNPOWDER PLOT

Sir,—I have read with interest the
recent correspondence, and the notes in
The Estate Market column, concerning
Holbeche House, which was a lot in
the auction of Lord Dudley’s
estates near Wolverhampton, Stafford-
shire, and its connection with the Gun-
powder Plot. Itis almost certain that
the present house incorporates but
few remains of the original one. A
noted Worcestershire antiquarian
informed me some time ago that he
was of the opinion that only the huge
interior chimney had survived. The
present house dates from the 18th
century.

At the Royal Academy Exhibi-
tion in 1872 the late Ernest Crofts,
R.A., exhibited a picture entitled The
Last Stand, which at the time excited
great interest. Later it disappeared,
and as far as I am aware it has never
been found. Perhaps some of your
correspondents may know more of
this?—Grorrrey W. Brarv, Donval,
Apley Road, Wollaston, Stourbridge,
Worcestershire.

THE SHEPHERDESS

S1r,—Some weeks ago you were kind
enough to publish under Collectors’
Questions a photograph of a portrait
of a lady dressed as a shepherdess,
believed to be by Wissing.

The identity of the lady has not
been established, though she does not
appear to be Lady Dering, as was first
suggested. I have, however, learnt
that this rtrait was purchased at
a sale at French Park, Co. Roscom-
mon, that took place after the death
of the third Lord de Freyne in 1968.

COUNTRY LIFE— MARCH

Possibly this information will suggest
a clue as to the sitter's identity to one
of your readers.—A, I. MACNAGHTEN,
Hadleigh House, Sheet Street, Windsor,
Berkshire.

RUNNING ON WASTE

Str,—Two or three years ago there
was, I think, a discussion in CounTRY
Lirr on the possibility of using saw-
dust in a domestic boiler. I am sure
many of your readers, like myself,
would be interested and grateful if you
would tell us again the method your
correspondent found most successful
in using it, I believe it required a
special hopper.—Joan BERKELEY.
Hanwell Castle, Banbury, Oxfordshire.

{Any additional means of heating

that can be devised is especially
welcome in these days of fuct shortage,
and we accordingly gladly reproduce
the illustrated letter about burning
sawdust as fuel which appeared in our
issue of July 7, 1944 -—
Str,—I enclose a rough cross-section
sketch of a sawdust hopper which
I saw in uso heating some Wolver-
hampton business premises in 1928.
It can be adapted for use with any
existing coal- or coke-burning turnace.
Tt is a funnel-shaped arrangement of
sheet iron, firmly attached to the front
of the furnace. Its simplicity of con-
struction makes for ease in operation,
for tho only attention necessary is to
fitl the hopper when required. There
are no flues to regulate, the automatic
feed being entirely reliant upon grav-
ity, and the heat is regulated by the
amount of air admitted, the draught
being controlled by the small door at
the bottom of the hopper. The cost of
heating in 1928 was estimated at less
than 2s. a room per month in the event
of the sawdust having to be bought at
6d. a sack.—G. BERNARD HuGHES.
Sevenoaks, Kent.—Ep.)}

ROYAL LEGEND
S$1x,—Your correspondent Mr, Cautley
is wrong in stating, in his letter
published on February 7, that the
legend Exurgat Deus dissipentur
inimici eius was used exclusively by
James I.

All the coins issued by Charles I’s
Civil War mints at Shrewsbury,
Oxford, Bristol, and Lundy Island,
and some of those of Exeter and Wey-
mouth, showed this legend (cf. English
Coins, by G. C. Brooke).—Prrer E.
Leacn, Eastdene, Holly Rush Lane,
Sevencaks, Kent.

A HEIDELBERG SCENE

Str,—In reply to Dr. W. G. Booth’s
question about his landscape illus-
trated in your issue of January 24, the
castle represented is Heidelberg
Castle on the River Necker. I have

a postcard bought in Heidelberg show-
ing the same scene.—ArtHuR F.
HARDY, Park House, Bishops Waltham,
Hampshire.

1947

14,

GLASS WARE FROM BURIALS IN MACEDONIA. AN ENAMELLED
VASE OF THE 5TH CENTURY B.C.; THE GLASS IS DEEP BLUE

AND THE PATTERN RICH YELLOW.

(Right) A PLAIN GLASS

TUMBLER OF THE BRONZE AGE

See ietter:

OLD ENAMELLED GLASS

Sir,-—lf I have read Mr. E. M. Elville’s
article in your issue of January 31
about old ‘enamelled glass correctly,
then, with due deference, I suggest
that he has missed out the ali-
important beginning.

The first enamelled glass known
is what is generally called ‘ Pheeni-
cian,” or perhaps better still ‘ Medi-
terranean,” and is certainly as early
as the 5th century n.c. For example,
one of the enclosed photographs shows
a vase I excavated from a burial of
the Sth century B.c. in Macedonia.
The zigzag pattern is a brilliant yellow
enamel on a deep blue vase, Some
excellent examples of this work and

eriod are on exhibition now in the

<ing Edward VII gallery at the
British Museum, close to the Milden-
hall silver treasure,
~ The object of the enamelling was
to give colour; the early glass-makers
could not free the glass of air bottles,
or make it the “white” colour we
know, and so it was ugly. Moreover,
colour was essential; everything was
colour. For example, the tombs, the

A PALM SQUIRREL CLIMBING
THE TRUNK OF A COCONUT
TREE, (Left) A HOODED
COBRA BEING PAINTED ON A
COCONUT TREE TO FRIGHTEN
AWAY SQUIRRELS AND RATS
See letter: Saving Coconute from Damage

funereal furniture, even the insides of
the stone coffins were coloured.
Enamelled glass was not common
in Roman times, but coloured glass
was. The glass was getting purer and
the enamelling was not necessary.

Old Enamelled Glas

Moreover, Rome stood for essentials,
whereas Greece had stood for art.

My other photograph shows a&
tumbler (so called because it tumbles)
of plain impure glass, of a date much
earlier than the enamelled Phoenician
glass.—A. G. Wang, Ash Cottage,
Bentley, Hampshire,

SAVING COCONUTS
FROM DAMAGE

Str,—Among the pests that bring loss
to coconut cultivators in Ceylon are
squirrels, monkeys and rats. Apart
from gnawing the ripening auts, they
do untold harm by nibbling the
flowering shoots and damaging the
fruits when they are young and
tender.

To prevent these animals climbing
up the palms to the top, various
methods are adapted. One device
consists in painting in black ink, or
drawing with tar, on the trunk of
the palm, a few feet above the base,
a fierce-looking cobra with distended
hood and curling tail, apparently
ready to strike at any intruder, In
this way the unwelcome marauders
are kept away, at least for a time.

Another contrivance is a struc-
ture composed of “cadjans” (dry
coconut-leaf plaited together) and
thorny sticks wound roun‘ the palm’s
stem some distance above the ground.
This is supposed to keep away not
only the above-named animals, but
human rogues who trespass, chiefly at
night, to plunder coconuts. Apart
from being afraid that they will be
pricked by the spiny twigs, the coco-
nut-thieves think twice before they
climb up the treo, for the rustling of
the “cadjans'’ as they attempt to
scale the barrier will give a clue to
the estate-watcher who, gun in hand,
is sure to shout out his challenge
from his hut.—S. V. O. SOMANADER,
Batticaloa, Ceyton,

HINTON AMPNER
HOUSE

Sir,—In my recent article on Hinton
Ampner House the name of the
joint architect of the alterations
appears as Mr, Trenwith Wells. 1 feel
it due to a friend of long standing to
point ont that it should be Wills,
which I certainly wrote, and regret
that I did not detect the printer's slip.
—CRRISTOPHER Hussey, 13, Cadogan
Square, S.W.1.

GEORGE STUBBS
Sir,—I am preparing a life of the
painter George Stubbs (1724-1806)
and an illustrated catalogue raisonné
of his work for future publication, and
should be glad to hear of any works by
him in private possession, or of any
correspondence, documents or other
material relating to him.—Basi.
TATE OR, 51, Oakley Gardens, London,

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1947
NEW BOOKS

THREE LOVE
STORIES

Reviews by HOWARD SPRING

R. RICHARD MASON, whose
M first novel, The Wind Cannot

Read, is published by Hodder
and Stoughton (9s. 6d.), sets his tale
in India and Burma during the recent
war. Clearly, much that he writes in
this book is derived from personal
experience, and I see that one reviewer
has allowed himself to wonder how
Mr. Mason will go on when he has to
rely “on imagination rather than
experience.

To raise such a question, I think,
is to misunderstand a novelist’s
problem, for a novelist may find
expericnce as easily in Brixton as in
Burma, in Islington as in India. It is

emotional entanglements with
Japanese women.

Miss Wei had been living in
London: she liked the English and
wanted to help them. So she went to
India, where British officers were being
taught Japanese so that they might do
Intelligence work in Burma. She was
one of the teachers, and she met
Michael Quinn.

There is no need to go into the
story of their brief and tragic associa-
tion. Let it be enough to say that it
is beautiful and moving, handled by
the author with deep feeling and great
skill. All the tragedy of the division
between Fast and West, between men

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CHILDREN OF WRATH.

By Edmond Buchet

(Collins, 7s. 6d.)

THE HAUNTED WOMAN. By David Lindsay
(Gollancz, 7s, 6d.)

MORE DEADLY THAN THE MALE. By Ambrose Grant
(Eyre and Spottiswoode, 9s.)

THE RETURN TO THE FARM. By Robert Henrey
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snot a question of imagination versus
experience, but of the imaginative
interpretation of experience, wherever
this may come to a writer. Any
writing which is not a mere record is
a fusing of these two things into a third
and quite different thing, and that
third thing is creative writing. Words-
worth understood this when he wrote
of
the mighty world

Of eye and ear—both what they half

create,

And what perceive.

And so, if we are to think ot Mr.
Mason’s future as a novelist, what he
has already done should be enough to
gO on,

It is a tribute to this young writer
that one does speculate about his
future. His first book is so good that
it would be strange if we did not think
with pleasant anticipation of more to
come. The 19]4-18 war effectively
launched such writers as Richard
Aldington, Ernest Hemingway and
Remarque, but the years that followed
saw them rigorously accepting life and
interpreting it.

WOMAN OF THE “ ENEMY ”’

Mr. Mason’s present book is
primarily a love story—-the story of
a British airman’s love for a woman of
the “enemy.” Miss Wei, as she called
herself, had adopted this Chinese
fame because it was not expedient to
flaunt the fact of being Japanese, as
she was. There was a time. of course,
when the Japanese were our gallant
little allies, and there was another
time when the Chinese were our
“enemies”; but life’s like that: and at
the time when Michael Quinn met
Miss Wei it was the turn for Japan to
be the enemy and for Englishmen
to think twice, about getting into

and their “enemies,” is illustrated in
this instance, and also the conquering
power of love. If I were asked to give
one outstanding instance of Mr.
Mason’s quality as a novelist, J should
mention the last few pages in which
Michael, straight from his love’s death-
bed, runs into his old friend Mario,
married that day, and is induced to
sleep in the bathroom, adjoining
Mario's nuptial room. This is an
extraordinarily poignant piece of work
and, for the rest, whether he is
describing the countryside of India or
Burma, or dealing with the mixed
bunch of his characters, Mr. Mason
shows an equipment which makes one
think with deep interest of his future.

A QUEER BOOK

Edmond Buchet’s novel, Children
of Wrath (Collins, 7s. 6d.), translated
from the French by Marjorie Gabain,
is another story of head-over-hee!ls
love. The scene is a psycho-analyst’s
establishment on the French Riviera.
Theodore Hermies, the psycho-analyat,
was much older than his wife Valen-
tine. He had taken a materialistic
view of life. There was nothing
beyond what his probing could dis-
cover. When he married he told him-
self that ‘one should try to value in
one’s wife the race rather than the
individual.” But he began in his
association with her to discover “the
meaning of something I had formerly
mocked at—true fidelity, the fidelity
of the spirit."

However, this iNumination came
too late, for Valentine blazed into a
love affair with a young student, and
the book thereafter develops on the
lines of Mr. Nigel Balchin’s Mine Own
Executioner. How is the physician, so
accustomed to handling the disorders
of others, to heal himself? The

situation is accentuated by the murder
of Valentine, victim of the doctor's
half-witted brother, and by the coming
of war.

Theodore is left utterly alone to
ponder on the ecstasy that had come
to Valentine and her lover—something
which be had never imagined men were
capable of experiencing. He began to
see psycho-analysis as “too often the
murderer of God,” and to long for a
glimpse of the Absolute that all his
practice had denied. Finally, flying
with the refugees out of Paris, tortured
in mind and dying in body. he is
granted this through a simple act of
self-sacrificing love on the part of
a stranger. It is a queer, illuminating
book, another recognition of the
world’s present need for love above all.

COUNTRY-HOUSE FANTASY

One might say that this is the
theme also of Mr. David Lindsay‘s
The Haunted Woman, a book first
published a quarter of a century ago
and now re-issued by Gollancz (7s. 6d.).
But here the method of presenting the
theme is one that I, personally, find
a little embarrassing. But that is a
question of taste. I can only say that
Tam neverhappy with ghosts or spooks
in any shape or form.

Mr. Lindsay presents us to
Marshall Stokes, an underwriter, and
Isbel Lamont, whom he is to marry.
There is some question of Isbel’s aunt
settling down after a wandering life,
and Marshall has heard of a remote and
ancient country house that might suit.
The owner is a man natned Judge,
“in the Birmingham brass trade.’

That hardly promises to qualify
a man as a romantic lover, especially
as he is nearly sixty vears old; but the
development of the story is this ; that,
unseen save to Judge and Isbel, there
are mysterious Stairs opening here and
there in Runskill Court. They ascend
them, find themselves in rooms cen-
turies old, look out upon scenes that
belong to Saxon times and discover
that they were made for one another.

This, not unnaturally, unsettles
Ishcl's feeling for Mr. Marshall Stokes.
She realises that marriage with him
would be a drab affair compared with
the experience of Jove which comes to
her in the upper rooms, and the
engagement is broken off. Judge had
died in the midst of one of his tran-
scendental experiences, and the book
ends with a hint of Isbel's returning to
Marshall; but the essence of the thing
is “love before all.’" However, the

lesson doesn’t strike home deeply tu’

me when taught in circumstances so
bizarro,

THE ROAD TO THE GALLOWS

if Mr. Lindsay gets off the
ground, Mr. Ambrose Grant keeps
both his fect ‘firmly planted on it in
@ first novel called More Deadly Than
The Male (Eyre and Spottiswoode,
9s,). This is the story of George
Fraser, a poor and inefficient person
who filled the gaps in his life with
dreams of power. He loved to
imagine himself the master of base
men like Capone and Dillinger, and,
unhappily, a revolver and ammunition
had come into his possession.

He got in with a bad couple,
Sydney Brant and Cora, his mistress,
who didn't dream of crime hut went in
for it in a sneak-thief fashion, Young
Fraser's frantic boasting to them of his
“past” among the gangsters of
America, and the knowledge that he
owned a gun, suggested to this precious
pair that George could be useful. They
knew him for the boastful liar he was,
but allowed him to suppose that they
swallowed all he had to say, and once
they had diverted his footsteps into

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH

their own criminal paths George’s end
on the scaffold was only a matter of
time.

If you like bocks without an
ounce of sentiment, books which move
exclusively among the dirtiest riff-raff
of great cities, books in which there is
not one character with a trace of
nobility or even of aspiration, you will
like this one very much. It has a
horrible feeling of authenticity—the
authenticity of a small and loathsome
part of life split off from the mass that
might redeem it, and intensively
studied in isolation.

VIRTUE AND VILLAINY

Leaving fiction, here is Mr.
Robert Henrey's The Return to the Farm
(Peter Davies, 12s. 6d.). which brings
full circle the story Mr. Henrey has
been telling for so long. He began by
introducing us to the Norman farm
which he bought before the war. Then
came the flight to Iingland with his
wife and child, when the war broke
out, and the agony of leaving behind
his wife's mother, who was separated
from the family when they embarked.
There followed 4 number of books in
which Mr. Henrey recorded the life of
war-time London in a manner which
1 imagine will make them valuable to
the historian of the future; and now
at last, the war ended, we find Mr, and
Mrs. Henrey with their child re-united
at the farm with the old lady whose
war-time experience in Paris had been
hard and bitter.

The interest of this latest volume
is in the author's re-creation, from
what he learned on his return, of the
life of a French village during the
occupation. It is not a new story, but
the now familiar one of what we would
expect of human nature in those
circumstances : the average mixture of
virtue and villainy. But it is freshiy
told, and is a fitting crown to the
series. If, indeed, itis the crown. Mr.
Henrey se inexhaustible, and no
one would be Tess surprised than T if
he found another book in the rehabili-
tation of the farm, so sadly despoiled
and diminished by the passing of the
war,

ee kee
BIRDS OF SOUTH EUROPE
Garrun G. K. YEATES is

known to those interested in the
photography of birds as onc of our
leading experts in the use of the camera
for bird portrayal. His pictures of the
smaller British birds arc specially out-
standing, but in Bird Life in Two
Deltas (Faber, 15s.) he shows what his
camera can do among the birds of
southern Europe. This volume tells
of visits to two deltas—tu the delta
of the Guadalquiver in Spain and to
that of the Rhone where it flows
through southern France into the
Mediterranean. Actually, three visits
are recorded, all in diaries, telling of
the author’s day-by-day experiences,
and with many an interesting descrip-
tion of birds strange and not so
strange, of their habits and doings,
particularly when viewed from the
near intimacy of a hiding-tent.

But the 68 plates, mostly repro-
ductions of Captain Yeates’s beautiful
photographs, are bound to catch the
attention before the book is read.
From the little egret that figures on
the jacket, in its snowy whiteness and
with its long mane of breast plumes
blown aside, to the series of shots of
a penduline tit building its nest, all
are remarkably fine pictures that will
call for admiring envy by every user
of a camera, Not only are the pendu-
line tit photographs models of the
bird photographer's art, but they are
noteworthy because they show a nest
in course of construction. Photographs
of birds at the nest either brooding
eggs or tending the young are legion,
put records of nest-buiiding pa rare:

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fightinthehills.’’ This was Britain’s
historic challenge after Dunkirk.
And fight at home we did, not

on beaches, landing grounds or streets, not with rifles

guns and tanks, but In the fields and on the hills with
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COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH

14, 1947
FARMING NOTES

SIX-WEEK ARREARS
ON THE LAND

about their cropping programme.
On the heavier soils ea bas been
impossible to get on to the land at all
since October, and there are many
thousands of acres intended for spring
cropping yet to be ploughed. Now
it seems that those farmers who did
not order their compound fertilisers
early in the season will have to manage
with straight fertilisers—that is, the
separate ingredients which they will
have to mix on the barn floor. This
is a tiresome business in itself, and
fertilisers mixed in this way do not
suit the combine drills which are now
generally used on the larger farms.
The combine drill, if it is to run
smoothly, needs a dry fertiliser which
is dropped alongside the seed grain.
This gives the young corn a flying
start, anda flying start was never more
desirable than in this sowing season
when work is already falling at least
six weeks behind the normal schedule.
Can anything be done to speed up
progress by bringing in other reserves?
t has been suggested that the Army
and Air Force stil! have a number of
tractors, and that these could be sent
out to farms to help make good the
arrears of seeding and cultivation. I
do not know how many skilled plough-
men are still in the Services. There
cannot be many, but I do remember
that during the war the United States
Army made an excellent job of culti-
vating and sowing a big stretch of
downland on the Bath Road between
Beckhampton and Devizes, Indeed,
the Wiltshire War Agriculture Execu-
tive Committee were so pleased with
the co-operation of the U.S. Army that
they erected a notice-board as testi-
jony to their good work.

F=: farmers can feel at all happy

Poultry Research

‘WO centres of poultry research,

one in England and the other in
Scotland, are to be established by the
Agricultural Research Council and
investigation work on transmissable
diseases for which special conditions
are needed is to be carried out at other
centres. In making this announce-
ment the Agricultural Research Coun-
cil, which is always retiring in
publicity matters, is careful to state
that the pace at which this develop-
ment can be carried out depends
mainly on finding enough trained
scientific workers and providing the
necessary buildings. There is a great
shortage of biologists, who are the
people best qualified to tackle poultry
research; so we must not expect any
lightning results. But it is, at any
rate, comforting to know that the
A.R.C. does realise the need for
expanding research in the poultry
field. Provision for this kind of work
has been far from adequate here in the
past; the United States and Canada
have forged ahead of us, but not all the
new knowledge they have obtained
is applicable here.

Brakes on Trailers

NY new trailer to run behind o
tractor must have an efficient
braking system if its unladen weight
exceeds two hundredweight. This is
the new rule to go into force on July 1,
but the farmer who already has a
trailer capable of taking up to four
tons laden weight is allowed five years’
grace, that is until 1952, before he can
be convicted for not having an efficient
braking system. Trailers without
brakes are still limited to a speed of
10 miles per hour. This seems a
strange time to introduce a new
requirement about fitting of brakes to
agricultural trailers, I doubt whether
the makers can find the brakes to fit
to’ trailers, Is there any evidence

that trailers without brakes are a
menace on the public roads?

Lack of iodine

HOSE who live in the chalk dis-

tricts know something about goitre
in farm stock as well as human beings,
but I did not know that lack of iodine
in the water in some chalk districts
may be responsible for young animals
being born weak or dead. A farmer
who has suffered from this trouble
asks me to pass on some information
that he has obtained from the Iodine
Education Bureau. It is estabiishect
that various unhealthy conditions,
such as the weakness of foals unable to
stand and suck, and goitre in calves,
lambs and goats are evidence of iodine
deficiency, These extreme troubles do
not, so far as I know, occur at all
frequently in this country, but it is
certainly a wise precaution to include
a little iodine in the mineral mixture
which is generally fed to young stock.
I remember that when we had some
trouble with wooden tongue in calves
it was iodine that was recommended as
the best remedy. My cattle always
have access to minerals that contain
iodine. This was not enough to ward
off the infection, which they picked up
in some mysterious way. We have not
had any wooden tongue for the past
ten years, and certainly I do not want
to see it again.

Farm Figures
IX our everyday farming we ali of
us have to do many mental calcu-
lations and it is a great help to have
a reference book to aid the human
mind, For instance, the average cut
of meadow hay for the whole country
is 22 cwt. to the acre and of first cut
seeds ley 30 cwt. to the acre. A truss
of old hay is cut out to weigh 56 ib.
and a truss of new hay (before Septem-
ber 1) is cut out to weigh 60 Ib. A
fully grown hen would eat on the
average 4 oz. of food daily. A bushel
of barley weighs 56 Ib. and a bushel
of wheat 63 Ib. A small pig can be
reckoned to double its weight in
14 days, a calf in 47 days and a human
baby in 180 days. These items and
many other useful figures are given
conveniently in one of the new
booklets, Farm Figures, published by
the Pilot Press for the National
Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs.
They cost Is, each. Another which
has just appeared is intended for
those who need some practice in
reckoning. To answer such problems
as “have we enough hay and mangolds
to last our cows for the winter?”
needs some reckoning, and if it can
be done readily and with some confi-
dence in its accuracy the farmer saves
himself a lot of worry. We can all
sharpen our wits to advantage on the
mental problems that are posed in
Farm Reckoning.

Straw for Paper Making

One again farmers who are close
to one of the paper mills which
can use straw will be able to seil their
straw at £4 a ton to the local mill. This
is the price paid for good qualit
wheat straw in bales. Only a small
art of the wheat straw which farmers
ave surplus to their own requirements
for bedding can find a market with the
paper mills. There are, I know, people
who say that it is a crime for the
farmer to sell any straw off the farm,
but it cannot all be made into farm-
yard manure, and ploughing in loose
straw is not very satisfactory. In
these days when we have to conserve
all our natural resources it is strange
that some ingenious mind has not
found a use for straw, that is surplus
to farm needs. CINCINNATUS,

THE ESTATE MARKET

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 14,

LAND BOARD CRITICISM

HE proposed new authority

known as the Central Land

Board, designed to exercise
@ comprehensive control over the
operations of the Town and Country
Planning administration as_ fore-
shadowed by the Bill, is meeting with
severe criticism. it was generally
understood that the Board would bea
completely independent authority,
consisting of a chairman and vice-
chairman, who would hold office per-
manently and be pensionable, and
that the rest of the members
would be selected and would
retire in rotation. On careful examina-
tion of the Bill, however, it transpired
that the Minister of Town and Country
Planning reserved power to give direc-
tions to the Board in the perform-
ance of their functions. An offer that
such power would be restricted to
“giving general directions" fell far
short of what the opponents of the
Bill regarded as essential.

The feeling of mistrust about the
matter may be gauged by the fact
that Sir H. Lucas-Tooth, M.P., oppos-
ing the proposal, stigmatised it as
“the most tyrannous three lines of
legislation yet produced in this Par-
liament.” Opposition to the pro-
posal proved of no avail in the dis-
cussion by the Standing Committee
of the House of Commons, so it
remains to be seen whether what may
happen in the administration of the
proposed powers under the Act will
justify the opinion of its opponents
that the Minister “would be revealed
as the first dictator this country has
seen since the time of Oliver Cromwell.’+

PROPERTY OWNERS’
PROTEST
Ge forebodings as to the

results of the operation of the
proposals in the Town and Country
Planning Bill have been expressed by
the Association of London Property
Owners. They say that one conse-
quence is bound to be that the Govern-
ment, through the planning authority,
will find itself saddled with all new
developments, at a fantastic cost to the
State, and that the proposals are
‘the biggest blunder yet made in
legislation and a disaster for the
country.”

Enlarging on the condemnatory
analysis in their Report, the chair-
man, Mr, W,. Stanley Edgson, said :
“It is not generally realised that this
is nothing else than nationalisation
of landed property. It is daylight
robbery. Hundreds of thousands of
small owners will have their property
swept away from under them.”
Another well-known figure in real
estate afiairs, speaking at the same
meeting said: ‘It really looks as if
Aneurin Bevan complained to Mr.
Silkin, ‘1 cannot stop private build-

ing: you stop it.’ The measure as it.

stands is calculated to stop everyone
but the wealthiest of private builders
ever building again.'’ The plea for
appropriating development rights
and other interests in land seems to
rest in part on the assumption that
land is held by an affluent class,
wringing a large income from op-
preased rent-payers.

COROLLARIES OF
OWNERSHIP

OME ‘people are apt to forget that

interference with the compli-
cated and interwoven interests that
make up the entity known as owner-
ship ultimately, and at no very remote
point, cannot fail to affect and depre-
ciate the resources of persons who
‘would be surprised that their well-being
isin any way bound up with the main-
tenance of land values. Let them
examine the balance sheet of most
insurance companies and see how
Many millions of pounds are invested
in land, houses and business premises,

and then let them compute, if they
can, how the resultant rents, or the
interests on mortgages, contribute
to the ability of the companies to 100k
after the policy-holdors as well and as
liberally as they do, whether the
policies are for a mere £10 or £20 or run
up to £100,000 or over.

The figure of £300-million for
development rights is purely con-
jectural, and it may be that a tem-
perate estimate would put them at
something more nearly thrice that
amount. The possibility of eventual
use of land for some fresh and remun-
erative project has always been re-
garded as valuable, and certain Col-
leges, for example, which have
benefited extensively through develop-
ing suburban sites for housing, busi-
ness premises and factories, cannot fail
to be adversely affected by the pro-
visions of the Bill.

VISCOUNT 87. VINCENT’S
LAND

ISCOUNT ST. VINCENT has

instructed Messrs. Knight, Frank
and Rutley to sell his estate at Sutton-
onu-Derwent, in the East Riding of
Yorkshire which extends to 2,380
acres, and includes farms that are
specially suitable for sugar-beet grow-
ing. These range in area from 100
acres to 350 acres, and the rental
value (exclusive of fishing and shoot-
ing, and the small Georgian house
called Sutton Hall) exceeds £3,090.
First-rate pheasant shooting can be
had all over the estate, and there are
four miles of fishing in the Derwent.
The property passed to the vendor's
family in 1834, on the death of his
cousin, Sir Thomas Clarges, the fourth
and last baronet.

Messrs. Knight, Frank and Rutley
have sold Hzllow Park, three miles
from Worcester, to Dr. Barnardo’s
Homes. Records of the property go
back at least as far as 1575, when
Queen Elizabeth stayed there. It
belonged for many years to the See of
Worcester, but in 1645, being then
Crown property, was sold to a private
purchaser; later, however, it again
passed into the hands of the bishopric.
The house was rebuilt in 1914 according
to designs by Mr. J. C. Corlette.

The Grange, a Georgian house at
Crawley Down, Sussex, will be offered
with 35 acres by the same firm at an
early date.

ORCHID-GROWING IN
. HAMPSHIRE
ADY M’GRIGOR has requested
Messrs. John D. Wood and Co. to
sell Whitethorn, a modern house
and about 10 acres, near Winchester,
The late Licut.-Colonel Sir Charles
M'Grigor’s collection of orchids; avail-
able with the property, originated from
that formed by Mr. Guy Harben.

NEIGHBOUR TO CHEQUERS
ESSRS. CURTIS AND HEN.
SON have sold, in conjunction
with Messrs. Gosling and Redway, the
freehold residence Lady Mede, ble,
near Princes Risborough, Bucking-
hamshire, belonging to Mrs. Stewart.
This property is adjacent to the
Chequers estate. The purchaser is
Mr. nd-Smith. The firm has sold
also Howden Court, Tiverton, a
Georgian country house in Devon.
The owner was Mrs. M. D. Dunsford,
and the purchaser Mr. Harman-Smith.
The Soottish Home Department,
Messrs. Grey, Lucas and Partners
announce, has acquired Castle Huntley,
Perthshire, which lies between Perth
and Dundee and overlooks the River
Tay. It is said to have been built
about 1450 by the second Baron Gray
of Gray. It was later in the possession
of the Lyons family. The vendor's
family first went there in the early 18th
century. Included in the sale are
some 70 acres of park lands.
ARBITER.

1947

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484

COUNTRY

NOTES ON THE
W FABR

IOS

EW weaves have been given their first showing in the
Mayfair collections; a few of the more spectacular of these
are reserved for export, but a limited amount of most will

also be available for this country. Novelties include a dress-weight
velours, an attractive superfine woollen with a soft handle and
a surface like a velvet, and an equally pliable but considerably
thicker cloth woven to look like suéde. The latter has a short
close pile, and is made up into a caramel-coloured all-purpose
top-coat, also into a dinner frock in canary yellow with a jaunty
bolero and a sheath dress zipped right down the front. Dress-
weight tweeds in flecked and intricate basket patterns made many
of the trim coat-frocks shown under jackets or long coats in
a thicker toning tweed. Blue serge has been revived, in a version
softer to handle than the trusted friend of the Edwardians. Black
net, laid on a Nattier blue wool frock, was an idea and gave a shot
effect that was attractive. The short sleeves and the yoke were
left undimmed, the rest of the dress veiled.

Striped fabrics outnumbered all others and were in wool,
rayon and cotton. For the suitings, they were mostly fine and
smooth-surfaced, pin-striped in two strong colours laid’ side by
side so that the over-all effect was shot; for the tweeds, shadow-
stripes or mixed diagonal] and herring-bone stripes. A velours
with a diagonal stripe in the weave was another interesting
woollen. Enchanting striped silks, some French, some English,
were featured in gay colours and with the stripes graded in size.

LIFE--MARCH

14,

1947

Corduroy coat in dusty pink or gold, double-breasted with
slit pockets. Dereta. Plumed felt from Miss Hammond

(Left) Dice-checked country tweed-—oatmeal, green, russet
brown, blae—with deep arm-holes and # narrow nicked
cuff. Aquascutum. Up-turned felt. Pissot and Pavy

A crisp taffeta at Stiebel made a dress reminiscent of ‘ Giselle,’””
canary yellow, cherry and pink, used in very narrow stripes for
a full bunchy skirt and a tight bodice. French taffeta, where
a fir-tree green ground has half-inch coral stripes and chalklines
in yellow and white, has been shown in most collections. Angele
Delanghe makes it into a short-skirted evening dress, a ballerina
skirt plus a tight bodice that is one of the big fashion styles of
the spring. Hardy Amies used butcher blue and white cotton in
broad awning stripes for a crisp dress with a full skirt ending six
or seven inches from the floor, with full-blown red roses tucked
in at the waist of the prim bodice, A wonderful] graded Scottish
cotton was shown by Peter Russell, the colours shaded in deep
horizontal bands, clay red, candy pink, sunflower yellow and
fawn, the skirt wide and gored, ending well above the ankles, and
the simple bodice tied on both shoulders.

Rayons are magnificent everywhere. from the stiff polished
English satins and the French poults for picture-dresses to matt
crépes for day-time, and some heavy jerseys for draped frocks.
Florals continued the stripe theme with flowery garlands in bright
mixed colours interspersed with broad stripes in a deep shade.
Nylon georgette made crisp bouffant frocks for débutantes with
billowing skirts and strapless bodices. The ottoman silk woven
in England has a wonderful texture, has been shown in black and
grey as well as the cherry red that Hartnell used for a summer

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COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 14, 1987 485

THE LADY WITH A LINE...
THE GOSSARD LINE OF BEATTY

Feathers for her head.
Sequihs for her shoulders.
Gloves for her arms.
Drapery for hips and for
her foundation
:. GOSSARD

DRESS BY

WORTH PARIS

CORSET
BY

OFS

LONDON PARES AND NEW VORK

486 COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 14, 1947

evening frock, the full skirt pleated into a deep waist-band and the bolero
top with wide white revers.
Among the magnificent French silks now being imported to England
in smail quantities is a brocade with broad red, white and blue stripes,
the white brocaded with gay flowers and fruit. This is shown at Harvey
Nichols, where there is also a wonderful broché silk that has an old
lace pattern woven in. Full-blown poppies are scattered over a lush
pale pink satin; a pearl grey satin is brocaded with a floral design and
Chinese pheasants in all the colours of the rainbow.
B Good news comes from the cottons, for one of the most cheerful

of dress shows—everything was labelled available for the women of this
country and most reasonable in price—as well as one of the best was
the collection of summer cotton dresses, house-
coats, lingerie, and beach-wear, desi by
Horrocksesand shown on one of the sn: st days
of the winter. The dresses were charming, easy
to wear, wide-skirted, full of original ideas—
adjustable sleeves and pockets that could untie
to launder and give leeway for fitting as well;
incidentally, the puff of the sleeve does away
with the need for padding on the shoulders—
always a nuisance in a washing frock. Many of
these cottons were striped; an effective navy
and white showed nurse cloth stripes about
three inches at a time and used vertically,
spaced out by broad horizontal navy stripes—
a very fresh-looking design, A wrought-iron
pattern, worked into broad horizontal bands,
was carried out in two pastel colours, The
house-coats were ravishing. In fresh, clear
colours, they all defined the waist with yokes
and sashes. Colours include an azure blue
ptinted in white and an enchanting Empire
pattern in narraw black and white stripes
scattered with red roses. A new fabric of
Horrockses is a Lansil rayon jersey for summer
frocks, both long and short.

P. Joycz REYNoLDs.,

A. “Little Bo-Poep,” a Moygashel taken from a Kate Greenaway story-book.

B.\ Another Kate Greenaway design for children's frocks in blue, green,

golden beige on white. C. A jungle printed erépe, cherry, tan, pink, green
on a lemon ground. Harvey Nichols.

CR OSS WO R D N Oo. 89 2 land 4, As bel oo setoes they are plural 26

across (7, 7)
‘Two guineas will be awarded for the first correct solution opened. Solutions
tin. a closed envelope) must yeach ‘Crossword No. 882, Country Lire, 9. A useful performer when not run down {11)
2-10, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, Landon, W.C.2,"" not later than the 11 and 12, Flower of natural charm despite its
first post on Thuraday, March 20, 1947. name (8)
Norg.—This Competition does not zpply to the United States. 13. Unintelligent creatures (7)

15. They stand up to a lot of hammering (6)

16. “They cried : ‘La belle Dame sans Merci
“Hath thee in ' +t Keats (8)

19, Machiavellian character (6)

20. A separate morsel for each (8)

23. Was this all that Cromwell said when he
felt bilious? (6)

26, Less confined (6)

27. A sailor's clothes make ours hard to bear (7)

28 and 30, Neither in cricket nor football is this
in the forward line (4, 4)

31, Lucky one, she ! (anagr.) (II)

32fand 33. In other words the houschold gods

(7,7)
DOWN
1, Two men for one of England’s captains (7)
2. What the fish do when a Severn tributary
gets disturbed? (4}

E.. ae

THE CATHEDRAL—
where traditions, with-
out text or rules, guided
artist-craftsmen in the
creation of perfection.
++ It is with a modest
sense of kinship with
these traditions that we

proudly send so many 3, Deduces (6)
of our products to the 5. “There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all
Denmark,

Deaneries of England.
Your Balkan Sobranie
can put up a smoke-
ecreen against every

“But he’s an —— knave'’—Shakespeare (6)
8, Man of vision (4)
7. Shrill noises (7)
8. Say which of the forty-eight (5)
8.

worry; in ite smoking is . Its beauty would not endear it to the beaten
peace, contentment, and (6, 5)
long-lasting satisfaction. 10. Nero’s favouzite firework? (5, 6)
13, Brick for boat-building? (7)
14, Little chaps out of water (7)
17 and 18. Throw light on the gamble and 80
7 give it away (6)
(Mtr, Mi., ste.) 21, Garment that bas left the {French in
Address... Moses? és icici doubt (7)
22 "*Long ——,’ I said, ‘in the world they say’"’ _

. —Matthew Arnoid (7)
24. Eve’s supremacy seems to have made the

SOLUTION TO No. BOI. The winner of this Crossword, the c clues of which

appeared in the isane of March 7, will be announced next Spanish painter’s name (8)

ACROSS.—1, A grass widow; 9, Hiems; 10, Rheumatic; at Leda Rr, 25. “The —— of heraldry, the pomp of power,”’

Green; 13, Lear; 16 Satin; 17, Scheme; 19, Lazier, 20, Lemur; 22, toed: saciaeds Gray (8)

23, Astir; ‘0, Moon; 27, Altar tomb; 28, Noise; 20, Wicked waste, 28. Y td it (6)
DOWN. —i, ‘Anecdote; 2, Rush; 3, Surprise in store: 4 and 26, Where the . You could get nothing clear from it (6)

rainbow ends: 5, Dome; 6, Witney; 7, Philosophical: 8, Scarlet runner; ao: Japanese city (4) 5

14, Sneak; 15, Emily; 18, Ammonite; 21, Bestow; 25, Eric. Site for a conspiracy (4)

GUNDITIONS GF SALE AND SUPPLY; This periodical Rast SEG anniek Ge te Rilowing sondiicmn, Genser, Goad Woe ——
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ANCESTORS TRACED, descent and kinship
proved.—QEORGE SHERWOOD, F.8.G., 48.
Beecroft Road, 8.5.4.
GoOs-eb xa French family, just vuteide
Paris, would like to aend their daughter age 18
to same olsss family in Great Britain for about
‘one year from April-May and receive in exchange
in their homo daughter of Eritixn family. No
payment elther aide. References..- Write, Box 173.
WNER of attractive i7th-oontury Water Mill
wante partner to develop samo an Roadhouse
Apply. Box 000. -
UTET, peacoful holiday. Medical and surgical
convalescents, especially rheumatic cages.
Diets and treatment by qualified staff. Country
house, lovely grounds, 10 ms. per weck inclusive,
—Brochure from SECRETARY, Castle House,
Halesworth, Suffolk.

MIs LANEOUS —

A®OnERY.” When buying new “equipment,

remerober ; Shvct better with JAQUES modern
equipment. Hand-mado by oraftemen.—JOHN
JAQUES & BON, LTD,, makors of fine Bporte and
Games Equipment since 1795. Thornton Heath,
Surrey,
AWNINGS in gaily striped impregnated heavy

ducks, also Sunblinds and Inside Blinds.
Garden Chatrs, Tabla ond Umbrellas. Couch
Hammocks, Dutch Canopy Bilnds. Upholatered
Steel Furniture for Hotel Work and xport.
Showrooms by B.B.C.—AVERY'B, ‘Britain's
Leading Blindmakers," 81, Groat Portland
Street, W.1. Est. 10,
ROSES supvtics ‘by post, now and Rocondhend.

Orders taken for books out of print and
difoult to obtain. All books reported before
supply.—THE LIBRARY SUPPLY ASSOCIA-
TION, 51, Knightsbridge, 8.W.1.

ILL SAVILL AND Hid BAND. from Grosvenor

House, and B.B.C, Broadcasts, who played
for the Royal Caledonian, ‘Debutantos.” Hunts-
men's and other Ralts, open for Hunt, County
Balls and other functions. —34, Oxford Gardens,
Denham, ‘Phone: Don, 274U,

Focomnendae mixture, 048 harvosted socds,
7/2 per os. Also available: vary targs atocks of
Tennis Boundary Netting, Birdproof Garden Nota,
Pea Training Neta.—J, T. PADLEY, F.RHA.,
0. Wietott,

i.) Garden and Sports Supplier,
Boston, Ling.

14 days - We Dye and Ropair,—
Write, call or *phone for details, LAMERTONS,
The Carpet People, Licensed Vatners, Raling,
London, W.5. Ealing 9941 (5 lines).

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 21,
ANNOUNCEMENTS

CLASSIFIE

1947

2}. Be Tine (Minimum 3 lines) Rox Fes 1/6
VA hii sts

M. FORESTRY COMMISSIONERS invite
applications trom men for appointments as
Diatriot (Forest) Officer or District (Estate,
Officer, Candidates must have been born
on or after Auguat 2, 1008, and have attained
the age of 21, Candidates born before August 2,
1906, may be admitted if they have spoctally
suitable qualifications. Salary x £25 to £650.
—Forms of application with further particulars
from SECRETARY, Forestry Commission, 2,
Savile Row, London, W.1. Last date for applica-
tions April 90, 1947, but applications from can-
didates now serving in H,M. Forces accepted up
to July 31, 1947 _
ADY has self-contained fully furnished
hosting and light, in country house, ip return
for caretaking and little help im house. Kx-
vive or retired police officer preferred.—Box 219.
MANAGERESS to run private mansion in
Beotland as Guest House, yearly from May
to October, Muat be thoroughly capable with
Jong experience high-clasa hotel] work and cater-
ing. Knowlodge of Food Omce returns, etc. Good
bay and prospects.—Box 215.
MArriep COUPLE, chauffeur-gardener, good
cook, no children, medium-sized modern
house and garden. Small separate flat. furnished
or unfurnished. Two in family. Good refs.
ossential.—Writo first to CATER, Silvergaten.
Craigwell Drive, Bognor Regis, Sussex.
Siz ERNEST R. DEBENHAM, Bart.. requires an
Accountant for his estate in Dorset: full
charge of Estate Accounts, Including liome Farm,
Building und Forestry Departments. Graphica)
prosentution of statistics required. Proposed
sulary 2980 per annum with house froe of rates.—
Applicants (preferably H,M. Forces) must. ba fond
of cauntry life, and should apply in own writing,
with details of experience, to ESTATE OFFICE,
Briantapuddle, Dorchester.

ENTLEMAN, independent means, offers assist
managoment sporting eatate in return for
Accommodation. No salary required. ixpert
training dogs and horaes.—Box 211. Laney
SNGie ‘YOUNG MAN, educated, good family,
with technical qualifications and practical
expericnce in agriculture, seeks post with farm,
ostute or land agent, where scope and responsi-
bility.—Box 190.
‘Youne LADY, shorthand/typiet and driver,
requires resident post to person ins. England.
Box 20.

ONSULTANTS AND SPECIALISTS ON

MODERN DRIVR SURFACING and TENNIS
COURT CONSTRUCTION, "SUSSEX PAVIOR”
CONTRACTING COMPANY. Inwoud Crescent.
Brighton. ‘Phone: Brighton, Proston, 6162. Esti-
mates free and without obliation. We can now
book orders for a mited amount of work in the
Southern Counties.

ANGHROUS! to leave Valuable but unwanted

artioles of jowellory and silvor in the house.
Why not dispose of tham NOW? As tho leading
Hatton Gardon jowollors we can offer the following
RECORD PRICES. 24h-2100 Gold Cigarette Cases,
£35-£60 Silver Tos Hots, 050-2125 Diamond Fternity
Rings, £15-£25 Cultured Pearl Necklacer, e6/6/- oz,
for 18 ot, Scrap Gold, £2/0'3 Sovareigna, £15 Gold
Watches and Chains, £50-#5,000 for Diamond and
Coloured Btone Rings, Brooches, Bracelets und
Earrings. Valuations by quatified oxports (Fellow
Gemmotogical Association), Rogister your par-
cola (oash of offer por roturn) or callat M. HAYES
AND SONS, LTD., 106, Hatton Garden. London,
E.C.1, HOLborn 8177,

ARAGES, Gardon Bhods, Living Hate, Store
Huts, Workshops, Small Bungalows, all com-
Plotely seotional, of xound dosign and construc-
tion, Made from Governmont surplus, indlatin-
Guishadie from new, woatherproof and lasting,
Eoonomioa} pricos,—Complete Mnatrated Price
List post free from actual manufacturers, RED-
WIND FOREST PRODUCTS, 1.TD.. Dept. C.L.12,
Brockham. Betchwortn, Surrey. Botchworth 2300.
INTATURES.—Troasured Memorien, exqui-
sitely painted from photographs, 6 guineas,

Ol¢ miniatures pertectly restored. VALERIE
SEHRES, Tia, Marine Parade, Brighton, Sussex,
Cate of Wimbledon.) at,

P RS. Two spi ly

designed types (a) for Milk-producing Cattle,
{b) for Beof Cattle. (a) is normality composed of
three typos of sheet: FEMALE, MALE, and
MALE Continuation with pedigree and milk
records, (b) one type of sheet providing for
Extended Pedigree prizes and wwards. Name of
herd printed on top of shects. |.oone-leaf in
Strong, handsome bindor. Inquiries Invited.—
ROBERT DINWIDDIE & CO., LTD. Agricultural
Publlahers, Dumfries, Scotland.

ABBIT SKINS, etc., cured. made up. repairs.
High Wycombe, Bucky,

—C, L. GORDON,
248,

Yours MAN, @x-public school and Navy. sooks
position as Dup}] to gentleman farmer for 6-9
months to gain experience prior to taking post in
East Africa. Home Counties, South or South-
‘West preferred.—Box 221. Patt
‘OUNG WOMAN, qualified secrotaria), adminis-
trative work, organising, shorthand, typing,
etc., desires work, proferably Tunbridge Wells,
Kent, area; used to farm and country Ufc. Hlanest
references.

ADGRABLE Afghan Puppies, pediarce, 8 cham-
pions, 6 international champions. Elegant,
adaptable, wonderful temperament, foarless
guard, From 20 gns.—'Shang-ri-la,” Hampton
Court Road, Hampton, Middx. Molesey 3045,
HELEFINI.D KENNELS, Bishopedule, Loyburn,
Yorks. Have the following attractive well-
bred puppies for sale from 10 guineas, Mintature
and stundard Poodles, Dandie Dinmonts, Afghans,
Long-haired Dachshunds, Scottius und Pukitgese.
Also winning dogs at stud
FF®enLANds POULTRY FARM, Chortsoy. offer
excellent point of lay Pullets.—Cali, write or
hone Chertsey 2252,
L .-COL, BROCKLEBANK has Thorough!
Huntors, Hacks and Children's Ponlos for
ealo, Highert quality, reasonable prices, Largo
choice alwaya on hand. many Irish bred. Secn
and tried at stables and exchanged if unsuitable.
Horses and ponies taken for breaking and schoo]-
ing,—LT.-COL, N. 8, BROCKLEBANK. Wynders
Stables, Stroatley, Berks. Goring Oxon 157.
ARROT FOOD. 6 pints 20°-. Budgerigar Seed:
4 pinte 20/-, Canary Mixture. 4 pinta 20/--
A)l post free. Peat, granulated, 17/0 cwt. (approx.)-
carriage paid. Crushed Oyater Shell, 1 owt, 25/--
56 Ibs, 15/-, carriage paid. Hop Manure. 20/- ewt,-
carriage patd.-ROTUNDA FOODS, South Strect-
Dorkins, Surrey. =
ROYAL SIAMESE KITTENS. Biro” “best
exhibit in show,'' Slameso Championship
Show, October 1946. Dam of unrivalled strain,
Approved homes only,—MRS. KAYE, 140, Beltinge
Road, Horne Bay.

WANHILL” Mini “Poodles, noted for
hardiness and character. Fascinating,

devoled companions. Black, white, chocolate,
blue. Seen by appointment.--"Phone: Wansford
226, BUCKLE, Wansford, Peterborough.

T° () DE-REQUISITIONED
ESTATES. We are buvors of standing timber
im any part of the country, and will pay the maxt-
mum control price for parcels large or sraall, We
are also interested in freehold land containing
food growing treca. May we make you an offer?
—MOREWOOD & CO., LITD,, Timbor Merchants,
Bevenoaks, Kent. *.

UR LIFE can be even

better ff you are confident of looking your
best. A ‘*Coronot" of curls will act like magic and
transform your cofffure into @ miracle of por-
fection,

Basily worn and invaluable while waiting for
your next permanent wave and on all occasions
when you cannot visit your hairdresser.

‘The Joy of a perfect colffure at all times will be
yours if your are wearing a Coronet of Curis.

Pattern of your hair will enable me to quote
You the cost which 1a not unreasonable at the
present time.

GEORGES BARRANGER

Premier (Free) French Posttcheur. Permanent
Waving and Hair-Colouring Specialist. Maison
, 33-40, Buckingham Palace Road, London,

8.W.1, Tel.: Vio. 8943/4, (Only address.)
wee 10, AESOe. (Only adiirens,)
Wark IG & GILLOW now offer special facilities
for the Repair and Adaptation of Customera*

Own Carpets, Oxford Street, W.1,

RWIN AT. BERNARD KENNELS, windsor,

Rerkshire. A marvellous litter by “Bnowbound
‘Travellers Joy" puppies for sale. Also young stock
for breeding and showing. 6 months old

Borxemovrs: MANOR HEATH HOTEL,
DERBY ROAD, EASTCLIFF
A charming and comfortable mansion with
country house atmosphere, built originally for
Lily Lengery. Central heating, Exvellent cuisine.
Personal attention throughout by resident pro-
prietors. Tel.: 6979.
BeRLINGTON HOTEL, now reopened, welcomes:
you—ocoupying the finest position in Bourne-
mouth, Ideal for Autumn and Winter Holidays or
Residence. Magnificent views over pea. Seven
sores beautiful gardens, bard tennia courts,
Re-decorated throughout, spacious public rooms
and lovely ballroom, Comfortable private suites
and many bedrooms with private baths. Every
room running water. P.O, ‘phones, redio and
electrio fires. All inclusive. Finest cuisine, per-
fect service ang choice w: . Fully licensed.
Music daily and dancing every evening to Lou
Simmons and his Broadcasting Orchestra.—
‘Terms on application to E.R. BANSETT, Resident
Manager.
(CCRANNEDL ISLANDS. “Charming hovel on sea
edge offers friendly welcome, unrivalled rafe
sande, bathing, surfing, boating, fishing. The
beat food, fruit and vegetables; excollont beds,
Tope HOTEL, Rocquaine Bay. Guernssy.
ep)

A private a in & Country
House with warmth’and every comfort. Gaod
food from own farm. Excellent co:
You will find this at
rthal, noar Truro. T
‘own Hotel, Blockley, Moreton-
XVith-century Inn, noted for good
food, rvod alee and comfort.
FASTER “at FARRINGFORD near Freshwater,
Isle of Wight. Greet tho Spring at this
delightful Country House Hotel, where you will
be welcomed a an honoured guest. Onoa the
kome of Lord Tennyson, the Poet Laureate,
Furringford har splendid views. every comfort,
excellent cuisine. Terms from &7 10s. for 5 days.
Write for illustrated brochure to the Manager. or
to THOS, COOK & SON, LTD., Berkeley Street.
London, W.1 and branches,
FexMoor, Dunkery Beacon Hotel. Wootton
Courtenay, near Minehead. Own riding
stables. hunting with three packs. Situated tn
glorious country, four miles from sea. Comfort-
able bear, Hotandcoldinallrooms. Gvod food,
FAVOURED BY NATURE. “Branksome Tower
Hotel gives luxuriaus comfortamidst a perfect
natural setting—pine-skirted cliffs and a private
nea promenade. Patronised by Royalty, and
heople accustomed to the world’s finest hotels, 11
has an International reputation for gracious
living. flawieas service and a wine ocllar par
excelloncs, Bevera) excellent golf courses nearby.
SRANKSOME TOWER HOTEL,
‘Phone; Bournemouth 4000.
‘Grams: Branksome Tower, Bournemouth,
OLBROOK HOUSE—Somerset's new Hotel and
Country Club near Wincanton—is now open.
molt. appointed, centrally heated, nest Engtish
Golf, Hunting, Ha
He TING WITH THREE PACKS, horses avail-
able locally, Good food, quiet and comfort,
from & gna.—WOOPFORD BRIDGE HOTEL,
Milton Damerel, N, Devon, Tel.: Milton Damerel

ys Nike a delightful home without the troubles
of housekeeping.
DORMY HOUSE HOTEL
WESTWARD HO!, N. DEVON

During the trying early months of the year, rest
awhile in the exceptional warmth and comfort
of this hotel and enjoy the delightful cooking.
Central heating, Adjoins golf inks. Licensed
club, Special winter terms. Tel.: Northam 286

LD TREE HOUSE HOTEL

NEAR LAUNCESTON, CORNWALL

Forget these weary times in this beautifully
appointed Country House where you will find
pence, courtesy, and luxurious comfort. Lovely
surroundings with opportunities for golf, riding,
shooting, and fishing, Fresh country produce to
help'the expert chet satisfy every taste. A glimpse
of pre-war England!

YORTUGAL

HOTEL URGBIRICA, CANAS DE SENHORIM
Altitude 1,400 ft. Wooded district. Tennis, golf,
swimming pool,
HOTEL FACHO, FOZ DO ARELHO. Fishing,
duck-shooting, seaside.

Both hotels under British management.

JRAVENSPOINT, Troardaur Bay. Anglesey.
First-class Hotel recently opened. Perma-

nent Guests taken. Apply, Manager.

ROAL HOTEL. WINDERMERE, open all the
year found. Proprietor, ROGER BOWNASS,

late owner for 60 years of the Old England Hotel.

No. Windermere 45,

‘BATON BBACH HOTEL

BEATON, 8, DEVON

‘The foremost hotel on the Sea Front. Comfort,

warmth, friendly and informal, 1,600 acres good,

“RAG.

‘OR SALE. Eight rose trafler umbre
diameter, Box 226.
LADIOLI. Before you order, write for my
beautifully tlustrated Mat of over 250 exhibj-
tion and gay varieties, at al! prices. including
special value Collections for beginners. in blues,
smokeys, and bright ooloura.—D. C. LAIDLAW,
Trenance Lake, Newquay. Cornwall.
QTHAWBERRY PLANTS, Brenda Gautry
(Huxiey Giant) of maidens M. of A. Cort.
A/087/48, 6/8 per 100, BO/- per 1,000. carriage paid
c.w.o, Gladiol! Allard Piersan, Snow Prin-
cess, Accra Laurentia, 27/6 per 100, carriage paid,
0.w.0.—A. H. COOKER, White House Farm, Gedney,

Spalding.

rough shooting, Golf Course nearby, FULLY
LICENSED. Tel. 17.
Ste, CALDERDRIDGE,

SUA PARE HOTEL,

WEST CUMBERLAND. Tudor manor of great
charm and character in lovely setting, Mild
climate, near lakes, fells and sea. Reliable hacks
from own stables, Golfing nearby. Iiome com-
fort, good food and supple beds,

Sours DEVON, Comfortable Private Hotel,
with h. and o. and pring mattresses tn all
rooms, has few winter vacancies. Very sheltered
Postion Near sea and shops. 44-5 gns. per week,
Brochure from Resident Manageress, Barton
Grange, Dawlish.

Stor ‘at the GEORGE HOTEL (A.D. 14%),
‘Batherleigh, Devon. Selmon, ses trout and
trout fishing. Lovely country, Excellent touring
centre. A few vacancies still available.

EABTBOURNE SCHOOL OF DOMESTIC

ECONOMY, EASTROURNE. Summer term
commences May 7. All branches of Domeatio
Bolence taught. Day and resident pupils. Certi-
floates granted.—PRINCIPAL: MISS RANDALL,
lat Class Diploma, EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF
DOMESTIC BOIENCE.

[rose nooustomed to an exquisite home and
exceptional comfort will appreciate the

VILLA VITA
KINGSDOWN, DEAL, KENT
With 6 acres gardens. Overlooking the sea. Club
bar. Charges from 10 ¢na,

ataL 4 AND GUESTS
for

n.
mafort and good food, winter residential,
terms from 6 guineas. Riding and hunting,
*Phone: Chagford 3199.
IST WALES. BRYNCOTHI PRIVATE
RESIDENTIAL AND SPORTING HOTEL.
Over 3 miles private fishing on renowned salmon
and sea trout River Cotht. Rods limited to four.
3,000 acres rough shooting. Country house atmos-
phere. Buperb position and scenery. First-class
culsine. Five double bedrooma only available,
“a modern conveniences.—Write for brochure to
‘OMMANDER, NICHOLAS, Bryncothi, Abergor-
feck, Carmarthenshire. To: A

Brechfa

HEErace RHSTAURANT, &0, Dover Street,

Res. 6176. Lunch, dinner, theatre
supper, bi-, service oharge 64. French an¢ Russian
cuisine. Afternoon teas. Fully Hoenaed, Private
room for receptions, weddings, eto.

ABOUT 10.000 Rolie Galvanised Wire Netting,
25 yd, lengths, 3 in. movh, 12G. No permits

required. 3 ft. widths, 90/-: ¢ ft. 40/~: 6 ft. 40/-;
6 ft, BO/-; 10 ft. O0/-. Carriage 2/6 per roll. 10 ft.
rolls 6/-. Carriage paid om 10 rolls.—CLLAUDE
ALDRICH (MERCHANTS) LTD., Brabourn,

Ashford, Kent, sellindge 3114,
ALABASTER BOWL, ‘electric ‘ight, pendant
fitting, 15 in. diameter, £10, Two others,
som{-opaque glass and bronze, 20 in. diameter.
296 pair. Six-light wrought iron Electrolier, 20 in.
diameter, candle bulb fittings, £16. As now,
Pithera “open fire’ stainless steel Anthracite
Stove, 5,000 cu, ft, size, £22, Another larger, needs
slight repair, £30.—ROBERTS, “Bagatelle,”
Market Harborough 2266. 2
ABY SEAL FUR COAT, gun motal shade, edge
to edge, three-quarter length, medium size,
Perfect condition, N.C. £120,—-Box 227,
20 Bore Hammerlesa Ejector. Rubber pi
Case. Built for lady of the nobility. Impos-
sible to replace, 100 gns, Bargain.—Box 223.
'URTIS TWO-HORSE BOX mounted on long
wheelbase, 1989 Bedford chassis, luxurious
fittings, perfect condition. little used.—Parti-
culars from RIVYER, 99, Elgin Avenue, Kenton,
Harrow. Middlesex,
FAtiry “TELEPHONE WIRE CHEAPER
THAN A&THING! Insulated, waterproof;
suitable for fencing, packing, horticulture, etc.
break-point 645 lba., 45/- (carriage paid) per mile
coil; immediate delivery, Bample against stamp.
~Write, a 6, clo STREETS, 130, Old Broad
Street. B.C.
{INEST cay dark Canadian Skunk Fur Coat,
£150 (cont £250 Ootober). Dark Mink Tie, £100.
Persian Lamb Coat, £100, Perfeot,—Hox 24.
ARRIS TWEEDS. Any length cut. Patterns
free.—Apply: BORLAND, Tweed Distributors,
Stornoway

Or ARMOUR, excellent collection of 12 items,
including Antique Repeating Cronsbow, Suit
Chain Mail, Swords, Daggers, etc. Complete col-
lection 15 gna,

UBLIC SCHOOLS. Seventy original Etchings
by Chas, H. Clark at £1/1/- each, These make
ideal gifta, etc, Signed proofs sent on approval
vy the artiat.15, Moorland Avenue, Crosby,
Liverpool 23, Great Cronby 4174.
“RACING ILLUSTRATED, 1a 3;
Country Life," bound volumes curlior than
1919; ‘The Ancestor," 14 vols.: ‘“‘Koramio Art of
Japan.” “‘Byria’ (Bell); ‘‘Feudal History of
Derbyshire"; ‘Rome” (Wey); "Word of Lalla’;
“The Grand Fleet, 1914-16" (Jell{o0e),—-Oflers re.
quested, WAKEFIELD, 56, High Street, Hucknall,
EAL hand-imitted Pair Isie Bereta, 17/6 each.
Kiddies’ Berets, 18/6 each. Ladies’ Fair Isle
Gloves, 21/- pair, 1 coupon, Ladies’ all-aver Fair
Tele Jumpers, long slovves, 156/6. 6 couponk: with
short sleeven, 124/6,@ coupons. Fair Isle bordered
Cardigans, 85/9, 6 coupons. Fair Isle, bordered
Jumpers, 80/5, @ coupons. Plain Shetland Jum-
pers, 65/8, 6 coupons, Gent's all-over Fair Isle
Slipovers, 110!- each. 6 coupons, Gent's Fair Isle
bordered Sipovers, 65/-, 6 coupons. Gent's hand-
knitted woollen Slipovers, 25/-, 8 coupons, Hand-
knitted woollen Golf or Shooting Btookings, 20/-
patr, 2 coupons. Hand-knitted woollen Sook,
7i@ pair, 2 coupons. Shotland Shawis, approx.
60 in, x 60 in., whtte or natural, 67/8, 4 coupons,
Shetland Sheepskin Rugs, approx. 38 in. x 9 in.,
white, cream, gold, rose, pink. brown, @5 each,
Ro coupons; smaller sizes, &4/4/- each, no coupons,
Knitwear list on request. Complete satisfaction
gsusranteed.—HEBRIDEAN CROFTER WEAVERS,
Muir of Atrd, Renbecula, Outer Hebrides,
ED BOXES roady for nailing. 45/- 100, 25/- 60.
Large wood Tallies, 10/- 400, smaller wud
Tallies, 10/- 600, Firewood, large sack, t0/-. Dow
Kennels, 35/-..BIRMINGHAM PLANT STORES,
Station Road, Erdington.
ATER DIVINING. OASIS Pocket Divining
Rod. anyone can uae it, 10/-; ditto super-
sensitive pattern, 2i/-, Four Easays on Water~
Divining, 6/- the set.—ARTS, Belcombe House,

ENTLEY OR ROLLS-RO' SALOON
urgently required.—LIONEL H. PUGH, 13.
Ww. yi

Ss: i. GUN
G' REPAIRS, immediate attention. GUN
FITTING at our shooting grounds. Partioulars

free,_CHURCHILL, Orange Street Gunworks,
Lotoceter Bauare, London, W-0.2. |
THRARINS or smaller collections of booke
wanted, Highest prices paid. Removal at
My expense: any distance.—-HAMMOND,
Drewa Lane, Birminghars.

LD Books, with coloured plates of birds and

, 93,

flowers, High prices pald.-KERR, 2, Kent
Street, Kendal, Westmorland,
, Sloana Aquare, 8.W.2, to

buy secondhand Linens, Urnivune,
China and Glass, Trunks and Bultoases in good
vondition.—Please write or telephones to the
Department concerned, Sloane M4.
ANTHD to buy, large or small couleotions of
of] paintings, in any oondition,-VEAL AND
COULTER. 83, Ainsty Avenue, York.
OTHER PROPERTY AND AUCTIONS
ADVERTISING PAGE 44.

COUN

Vol. CI No. 2618

MARCH 21, 1947 oe

KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY «=

GLOUCESTERSHIRE -

300 feet up overlooking Berke-
ley Vale. Close to village.
Gloucester 12 miles.
Bristol 22 miles,

An early GEORGIAN HOUSE
in perfect condition standing
amidet parklike grounds.

Hall, 3 reception rooms. Very
fine brary. Nine bedrooms
(basins h. and c. in princi ‘ipal),

4 bathrooms. Complete o:

Central heating, main electric
light and water. Telephone.

LEICESTERSHIRE

Nottingham-Grantham-Leicester Triangle.
A first-rate Residential and Agricultural Property.
: aa

Moderate-sized House in excellent order, facing south with fine

views and standing in attractive gardens, approached by a drive.

Three reception, 7 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, kitchen with ‘‘ Esse.”

Central heating, electric light, excellent water supply. Hunter stabling,
garage for 4, farm buildings, bungalow and 4 cottages.

First Rate Dairy Farm with Modern House and Buildings.
Excellent grass and arable. ABOUT 129 ACRES FREEHOLD
FOR SALE AS A WHOLE OR WILL BE DIVIDED
Vacant Possession of House, Buildings and 67 acres.

Sole Agents: Messrs. SHOULER & SON, Melton Mowbray,
and Messrs. KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY. (43,251)

London 27 miles—adjoining a
village. .
A delightful old-fashioned
COUNTRY HOUSE
Bullt of brick with tiled roof
and in good order throughout.
Secluded position facing south
and approached by long drive.
Four reception rooms, 9 principal
and 4 servants’ bedrooms, day and
night nurseries, 4 bathrooms.

Central heating.
Main water and electricity.

SURREY HI LLS

An exceptionally attractive,
well equipped and modernised
Country House situated on a
southern elope, 300 feet up,
with beautiful views.
Lounge hall, 4 reception rooms,
billiard room, 16 bed and dressing
rooms, 5 bathrooms, and complete
domestic offices.

Companies’ electric ght, gas
and water. Central heating.
Modern drainage.

HARPENDEN DISTRICT

FRANK & RUTLEY. (39,118)

23 MILES footie LONDON

Sole Agents: Messrs. KNIGHT,

Garage. Stabling for 3.
Cow stalls. Court room.
The attractive gardens are a
feature of the property.

Lawns, shrubbery and shady
walks. Walled kitchen garden,
pasture-land and arable.

Hunting with the Berkeley and
Beaufort Packs. Stinchcomhe Hill
Golf Links cluse by.
ABOUT 39 ACRES
FOR SALE FREEHOLD
(33,407)
ANGLESEY

7 miles from Bangor. 1 mile from station.
With extensive views of the Snowdon Range.

Attractive emali Modern House extremely well built of stone
and in excellent order throughout.

It occupies a delightful secluded position facing south and it in

approached by a carriage drive of 150 yards.

Three reception rooms, 3 bedrooms, bathroom, modern domestic
offices, servants’ room. ‘ Aga’’ cooker,

Exceptionally yood stabling. Farm buildin Lodge. Delightful

gardens, with lawns, walled kitchen garden, grass and arable land.

In all ABOUT 19 ACRES
FOR SALE, FREEHOLD, WITH POSSESSION
Sole Agents: Messrs. KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY. (43,339)

Ampie Garages.

Four good brick and tiled
Cottages.

Charming gardens and grounds

nicely timbered and well main-

tained. Fine old walled garden.
Grass and arable land.

ABOUT 27 ACRES

FOR SALE FREEHOLD
With Vacant Possession.

Ampie garage and stables.
Three cottages. Bungalow.
Swimmingpool. Squash rack-
ets court. Hard tennis court,
Grounds and gardens with terraces
and ponds. Two kitchen gardens
(one walled), pasture arable, and
woodland,

ABOUT 56 ACRES
FOR SALE FREEHOLD WITH
VACANT POSSESSION

Sole Agents : Messrs, KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY. (834)
20, HANOVER SQUARE, LONDON, W.1

COUNI(RY LIFE-MARCH 21, 1947

JACKSON-STOPS & STAFF

8, HANOVER ST., LONDON, W.L. | Maveam 3816/7

CIRENCESTER, NORTHAMPTON, LEEDS, YEOVIL, CHICHESTER, CHESTER, NEWMARKET AND DUBLIN

THE 15th-CENTURY PERIOD RESIDENCE AND RESIDENTIAL ESTATE
BILTON HALL, KNARESBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE

Knaresborough | mile, Harruyate 3 miles, Leeds 16 miles,
With parklands, cottages, and paddocks,
IN ALL ABOUT 32 ACRES

Standing above Nidderdale, in a giertous position, the house, of stately Tudor architecture, offers:

Hall, 3 reception room nursery, and billiards room, 5 principal and 3 secondary bedrooms,
bathrooms, and servants’ and domestic accommodation,

CENTRAL HEATING. MAJN WATER. ELECTRIC LIGHT.
Two service cottages, stables, garage.

“Attractive garden and terraced lawns, together with grass paddocks of approximately
90 ACRES, LET AT £50 PER ANNUM

Will be offered for Gale by Auction (uniese sold previously by pelvete: treaty) on Thuredey
Aprii 5, 1947, at the Station Hotel, Harrogate, at 3 p.m.

Solicitors: Messre. J. R. PHILLIPS & CO., 17 flocadlity, Bradford, {Tet 12506); M erates

VINT, HILL & KILLICK, Commercial k Chambers, Bradfo
Auctionsera: JACKSON-STOPS & STAFF, 15, Bond Street, i oedet 4¢

A FINE OLD MANOR HOUSE

formerly an old Ml, fully modernised and
comprising :—
Four reception rooms, fine old barn hall, 6 bed-
rooms, 20 bathroom, waual domestic affis
Central heating, electric light and power. tee
phone. Charning gardens and amall paddock
extending te about 2 ACRES. Attractive
cottage.

Situate in a secluded position, the land runniug
down to the River Stour.

FOR SALE PRICE £11,500

SALE BY EARLY APRIL
URGENTLY D&GIRED

SUSSEX
in a delightful rural district about 10 aeciles from the coast.

REALLY ATTRACTIVE MODERNISED RESIDENCE

approached by a quiet road and private drive and standing in greund iad land of about
31 ACRES

Nine bedrooms, 3 baths, 4 weli-proportioned reception rooms.
MAIN ELECTRIC LIGHT, WATER, GAS,
Stabling, garage, large barn and other outhulldings. Two cottages.

PRICE MODERATE

JACKSON-STOPS & STAFF, 8, Hanover Btreet, W.1 (Mayfair 3316/7).

Joint Bole Agents: Messrs. JACKEON-STOPS, Castic Street, Cirencester (Tst.: 3534/5); Movers. BOSLEY & HARPER, Bhipston-on-Stour (Te

oo WINKWORTH & CO.

piesa 48, CURZON STREET, MAYFAIR, LONDON. W.!
RURAL BUCKS BERKSHIRE DOWNS

‘On high ground with south views. in a favourite residential district 300 It. above sen level.
25 miles from London by road; only 40 minutes by rail. About one hour by express rail, and 50 miles by road from Lundon.

AN ATTRACTIVE MODERN RESIDENCE A WELL-EQUIPPED COUNTRY HOUSE
Hight bed and dressing, 2 bath, hail and 3 reception rooms. Twelve bedrooms, dressing and 7 bathrooms, hall and 8 reception rooms.
Main services, Modern drainage. Garage, stabling and rooms, Centre! heating, Main electricity. Ampio first-class stabling, Five cottages.
Pleasant grounds and kitchen garden (Freehold). Beautdfully tinibered grounds, orchard, ete., and lake with Island,
Lease of 63 yours to run at £40 p.a, for diaposal. Pasture and arable land with former 2-mile gallop.
LOW PRICE OF £6,500 PRICE £35,000 WITH 200 ACRES
A tale with lese land would be considered.

Sole Agonte: Mesars, A. C. Frore & © é Co., Burnham, Bucks.
and Wiexworta & Co., 44, Gurion Street, Mayfalr, London, W.1, Owner's Agents: Winkworts & Co., £8, Curzon Street, Mayfair, London, W.1.

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 21, 493

NICHOLAS

1, STATION ROAD, READING ; 4, ALBANY COURT YARD, PICCADILLY, W.1

1947

Telegramar
‘*Nioholae, Reading.’’
“Nichenyer, Plocy, London.’*

By order of Captain Dennistoun-Webster, R.N.

HURST GRANGE, Near TWYFORD, READING

In @ quict sunny potition on the outskirts of the old-world village of Hurst. Twyford 2 miles, Reading 8 miles, Wokingham ¢ niilee, London 27 miles, Hunting with the Garth.

FREEHOLD COUNTRY HOUSE

with drive approach enjoying delightful outlook over its own parklike meadow!land of 27% acres in all,

Lounge hali and three good reception rooms, usual domestic offices, servants’ a{tting-room, eleven bed and dressing rooms, three bathrooms.

Complete central heating. Main electricity.

Excellent stabling (8 loose boxes), Garage for ¢ cars. Five-rooned flat, second cottage. MODEL FARMERY. A beautiful garden and meadowland. Jn all £7}; AGRES.
To be sold by Auction during March (unless an acceptabie offer is received meanwhile),

Sole Agents: Mesars, NICHOLAS, Reading and London.

F. L. MERCER & CO.

SACKVILLE HOUSE, 40, PICCADILLY. W.1

KENT—BETWEEN TUNBRIDGE WELLS AND ASHDOWN
FOREST

‘The subject of an articles in Homes and Gardens and Smalier Country Houses.

132 ACRE FARM.

SOMERSET-DEVGN BORDERS
ATTRACTIVE BTONE-BUILT FARMHOUSE

Agents: F, 1. Mencken & CO., Sackville House, 40, Piecadilly, W.1. ‘Tel.: Regent 2431.

JAMES STYLES & WHITLOCK

44, ST. JAMES'S
PLACE, S.W.1

SUSSEX
18th-CENTURY COUNTRY RESIDENCE
modernised and in Arat-rate order,

Near tus route and 2 snlles Sram junction with fast trains to
Me

Three altting rooms, 8 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Co.'s
water. Maln electrielty, and power, Central heating.

Garage for 2 cara. Stabling for§. Two cottages (one let).
FARMERY i

with cowhouse for 40 and other necessary buildings, all in
good order. Walllff’s house and cottage. Total area about

125 ACRES

Main residence, grounds and cottage would be sold apart
from form.

James BTYLEs & WHITLOCK, 44, St, James's Place, S.W.t.
(E.R.21,808)

TOTTENHAM COURT RD., W.!
(Ruston 7000)

Throe reeeption. rooms, 5
bedrooms, bathroam.
Cottage. Garage.
¥ine orange of modern
buildings.

Smajt orchard, 30 acres
arable, remainder paxture,
all in ring fene

Shooting and flabing on the
property.

FREEHOLD £9,600
POSSESSION JUNE

ARTISTIC TUDOR
FARMHOUSE -
skilfully converted by
eminent. architect,
Lounge bali, 2 reception
rooms, 6 principal bed
rooms, fitted wads basins
th, amd c.), 2 double maids’
hedroon, 3 bathrooms,
Central heating, All main
services,
Gardener's bungalow.
Roome over garage.
Pretty gardens and grounds,

4 ACRES FREEHOLD
FOR SALE AT
TEMPTING PRICE

Agents: F.

OXFORD DISTRICT

AN ATTRACTIVE SMALL RESIDENTIAL FARM
450 ft. up and commanding fine views.
The small Modern House contains hall, 2 sitting rooms, 3
bedrooms, bathroom, offices, Co.'s electricity, own water
supply (main may be available « shortly). Garage, farmery,
Attractive gardens with apple, plum, pear, clierry and
greengage trees. Pasture aud arable and wooded dail with
very small xtream, {n ali 38 ACHES
PRICE FREEHOLD £8,250
Bole Agents: Jamys Stryies & WicitLock, Londen Office,
44, St. James‘s Place, 5.W.1. (Ei.21 175383

SOUTH-WESTERN COTSWOLDS
STONE-BUILT AND TILED BEAUTIFUL OLD

High situation, southern and western aepecte.
Everything in splendid order, and modern sonventences
installed. 24 milos from main’ line station: golf and hunt-
ing. Four sitting roonis, 8 bedrooms, dresaing room, bath-
room, Main electricity, Sentral feeine: independent hot
water. Stabling for 7, | largo ge ge. ce. walled

garden, paddock, etc., totai or spout ex A
Samus STYLES & WHITLOCE, 44, St. James's Place, 8.W.J-
(1..R.21,786)

MAPLE & Co, Lop.

HERTS

1, MERCER & ('o,, Sackville Houwo, $0, Piccadilly W.1. Tel.: Regent 24st.

Regent 0011
«2 lines)

CITY GENTLEMAN’S SMALL
COUNTRY ESTATE

CHOICE AGRICULTURAL AND SPORTING
ESTATE OF ABOUT 750 ACRES

Elevan cottages, 3 sets of farm buildings, together with

Gantloman’s Small Residence of 3 ultting room|, 6 bed-

rooms, and 4 bathrooms (capable of enlargement), and
having central heating, electric light, main water, ete,

The residences oecupice a high situation overlooking the
whole of the estate and is in flrat-claas order,
FOR SALE WITH VACANT POG SION

of the whole (apart from 1 cottages), The whote of the Ive
and doad stock can ajso be purchased,

Sole Agents: JAMER STYLES & WHITLUCK, 44, St. damen’s
Place, 3.W.1, (L.R.17,044)

5, GRAFTON 8&8T., MAYPAIR W.I.
(Megant 4605

In rural country on high ground, 5¢ miles St. Albans, 24 milas Bormoor, 24 miles London,

“HANDPOST LODGE” LEVERSTOCK GREEN

A Freehold Modern Bijou Residence containing ¢ bedrooms, tiled
bathroom, hall with cloakroom, 2 reception rooms, excellent
kitchen, etc. Central heating. Co.'s electricity and water. Garage,
2 steel frame greenhouses, Delightful picturesque garden with
chain of waterfalls, formal garden, small orchard, kitchen garden,
also OLD TUDOR COTTAGE in need of reconstruction, and a

‘To be Sold by Public Auction (as a whole
‘The Peahen Hotel, St. Aibans, on Apri!

oT 1,

Tilustrated particulars of the Joint Bele Agants and Auctioneers:

4 ACRE PABDOCK. In ail about é', ACRES

Privately beforehand.

in three lote) at
next, unless sold

Lor 2.

Mesars, MANDLEY & Spaknow, 36,Chequer Street, Bt. Albans (Tel.: 216), or MaPLa & Co., LrD., 5, Grafton Street, W.1 (Reg. 4685).

494 COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 21, 1947

HAMPTON & SONS

6, ARLINGTON STREET, ST. JAMES’S, S.W.1

Regent 8222 (15 lines! Telegrama: ‘“Seianist, Plocy, London"

HOVE
Premier position close to the sea front.
FOR SALE
THIS CHOICE MARINE RESIDENCE
with ith accommodation on two floors.

‘The house stands 90 ft. back and contains:

Spacious lounge 20 ft. 0 in, x 20 ft. @ in., dining room 21 ft. x 20 ft. 0 in.. study 16 ft. x 15 ft.
atin terrace, 9 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms.

Main servicer, Central heating.
Garage, Welt laid out gardens.
‘The property having « frontage of 100 ft, aud a depth of £96 1
VACANT POSSESSION

Joint Sole Ayenta: Mesare, GRAVES SON & PILCHER. Old Steyne. Brighton, and
HAMPTON & SONS, 6, Arlington Street, St. James’a, SW.1, (0.58, 0684)

ST. GEORGE’S HILL, WEYBRIDGE WEST SOMERSET
High ond healthy position, wonderful rieeex, 40 minutes from Town, Fine position and views. 12 miles Taunton

Picturesque Farmhouse in <
rural country.

A comfortable Family Rest--
dence, Three reception,
@ bed and a dressing, 3
baths, offices. Garages for 4. Three reception, 7 bed and
dressing rooms, #4 bath,
Cottage. tiled kitchen.
Main electricity. Good

Main servicer.
water. Central heating.

Central heating.

Charnilng terraced gardens, Garage. Farm buildings.
AOU 3:0: ACRES Pretty garden, Paddocks.

PRICE £11,500 FREEHOLD. Cottage available if desired. 10°; ACRES FREEHOLD £7,900
Agenis; HAMPTON & SONS, 6, Arlingtan Street, St. James's, SW (843,072) Ayente: HAMPTON & SONS, 6, Arlington Street, St, Jamen’s, SW. (W.51,070)

BRANCH OFFICES : WIMBLEDON COMMON, 8.W.10 (Tel.: WIM. 0081) & BISHOP'S STORTFORD (Tel. 243)

CLASSIFIED PROPERTIES
TOUT OR SALE For SALE

eo AUSTIONS
URREY. To Ict, commodious labour- JERBEY, CHANNEL ISLANDS. (A highly NO RTHEEN iAELAND. Lough Broo

On high ground with ‘may miftcent views. waving wing of 3 Unfurnished Roorns in ve Ww 0 Hotel, Rosrclare, Killadeas, Ballina-
Gentleman's wtone-bullt Country Residence of — charming Georgian moderniued cottage real- paid” roauetiy » Fralt, Farm will be osfer id for mallard, Co. Fermanagh. Standing {n {ts own
old-world character, Five principe! bed and = dene avatlable now. Central heating, 2 bath.., terraces, facing south, on high ground on the grounds containing 11 acres statute measure
dresaing rooms, $ ataff bedrooms, 3 reception gardon, stabling. rout coast oF the Téland ihe-property hae sdlolning the lake 9 miles from Enniskillen at
rooms, large garage, stabling, Own electric y buses serving uitation on the Jersey and Ei hn Cothe am alde facing south, sitnated on the
light plant and water. Gardener's cot! station. Quict tenant with grown family tao or the colour and quaitty of ite banka of the lower Jake amongst the best
Charming fardens ana grounds dai oat aun sought. (Ownor liver on premises).—Box 233, produce Stock Includes approximately 2,000 somnery ta the Beltiah Ieles. yopded inands
extreme care and judgment ‘ennis cor —————— "| evel ere. Hotel Sloence. lounges nd
ar Pee and plum trees, with some apple. 5 acres. reception rooms, dining room, BS ot

Faddook, "in all about, 6 ‘acres,

are tial aaa dt tao Se tonne fry cul ao baer ee Lp era Bape
ApH gy ur untens rlausly sold. Auctionese A 8. CORNISH PERIOD RESIDENCE. alvoly planted for carly fruit. Approximately be 100 yours: from iat March, 1028, 0%
A splendidly built Georgian Residence of heated glase-houees; stores, packing fhe yearly rent of £70, Hotel t8 beautifully
Eniate Otsone, Puttorongh, Sussex. staudiog In ‘over 40 acren with “ppeomeh, duede” Garenee” Fete dens went ae hed and decorated. Garage for 20 cara.
D dsive, gardeng, qrrounds, including walled reservoirs, Pumping plants. All equipment, Conca) y, annie bathrooms a (il pee le

en, w! *
warden, woodland and stream pumero tools, motor cultivators, lorry, The oul gens “Ail equipment ’and

ess? AWGLIA, beirut’ OR HEATH. — waterfalls and cascades on outakirts 8. roperty has a commandiag view “of th the south
Up to £15,000 would be paid by keen aea-coast town. Four attractive reception, boast and la tees than a mile from the sea, necessaries een te inchided: in_sale.——For
buyer for a Dalry and Mixed Farm, about 200 10 bedrooms, 2 bathruvms, lavatories, ample _ Residence with lounge, dining and breakfast Onn atom ey sont i ie piaiors an

with gentloman’s house and good and spactoun domvustic offices, Freehold. rooms, kitchen, bathroom, 2 main and 2 attlo Fe

hulidings: Applicant “KK”, Woovcock = Price £8,260 or near offer..—A pply Sole Agents: bedrooms. Glass conservatury, Garage. Price ‘ermanagh.
AND BOX, Ipawit eh Stockton & PLUMSTRAD, Falmouth, Ref. over £15,000.—Write to H. G. PooLn, 22, SURREY {20 miles Town). A He ot
MILEe LONGON. 500. Imber Grove, Kaher, Surrey. CRON EIGEAD Cee Te calin Renton

E Roquired to, bu:
y, nine old-world Ni Le nds 1 acro, Features include Central
LSANGOLLEN (near), | A magnificently NORTH DEVON. Owner going abroad. froatiug, oak joinery throughout. Four beds,

cottage or Parrmhoute. int war vices Or ullt, chotcely situated Modern Wesidence es
Gegelon t,o Riad, ARUN or tees, Ngakeme Ma. aa iden oun County EMule ahaa” DA sata CP
Ow. J ° spared on fittings and construction. mn. Houle approached by well-timbered private Erechuld Recommended by bole a

wooded slo pe Fishing in Dee. Over 200 drive within 2 miles’ of town conveniently

eRrroncerInE. G65 Good price offered acres, M. .» study, gun near protty village, handy to bus. The pro- Moons & Co. esurvevars, Carshalton, Tel.:
for attractive and thoroughly well- room, fine ‘loal , compact model commands magnificent views and has ington 2

equipped house in Herts, or Herts/Bucks etc. 9 main beds, 5 second ditto, semen Been thoroughly" todernised, * vontaluing: qe | a ee Y mint ion Baleusda Baa

border. 8tx/eight bedrooms, 2 or more bath- bathrooms (in all). Five oar, well-eq iD 4 sitting rooms, 7 bedrooms, 2 bath;

rooma. Main slectriclty essential. Good Fi ‘age. Covered wash. Central heath Somplets domestic offices, Me electricity”, povetton, secluded position on high Foatr:
view desired and property must bo (n first- igh clase Schusl, Fishing Hotel, Rest unlimited water, central’ heating. Stabie, fooms, good dowmesthe np nt Toms,

class order with good garden and land from Freehold. Poasoasion. Cottage.-—A) ply: double marage, heated conservatory and other Bad danoeand anenaars gree nga: careere
10-100 weres, Ono or more cottages desirable. WILs0N & Sons, 2, Victoria Street, Liverpool. — onthouses. Picturesque lawns, beautifull fully laid services and ceotrs) beating." t
Box AA aa 16986, B4 SAMSON CLARKS, 67/61, Tel. Con. 6851, and Branches, out gardens, walled kitchen and fruit, lens, attractive pair — pe. ooe acres Of
Mortimer Street, W.1 (OOLMSRX. Pioasantly ultuated half- feharda, meadow approximately 4% sores, orohard, paddock and natural take providing

WwW « M tirabered thatched cottage in excellent The whole swimming and fishi facilities, — Price
Purchase, Gountry } Realdenes convenient ona? lowe t to the village, of Lalshem-on. Sffocts available at valuation. Hough shooting $12,000" Apply: {pMbier & Vavawan,
fur village and. station. Accommodation: ‘Thames, 18 mil rom By de. Park ‘Corner. ovar 1,800 acres, resident. gamekeeper. Balmon Haywards Heath

10-12 bed and dreasing Toons, eons co Three reception pn drooms, 2 bath. D4 oe conn cone ped Sone eee ie WES
rooms, 4 @ rooms, Outbuildings, cot rooma, ta rd Partioula . 2X. Horsham 3 y ate
tages ‘and 10-20 acros.—Detalle to ¢ CMD All i Bons, Ketate Agents, Bideford. s tive Country House in secluded

PT ao RR AEE ET PEG BSR PA lon. ix

2/0 MapLe & Co., S Grafton Btreet. cooke: rator and coke-fi 2 bath.,
ae BORaET, SOAS Carnet eae cote ete, STANMORE. | 5 > eden nek fuperiot Central heating ‘and all 6 Sonniiaes Se.
Wanted to Purchase, Perfod House 3-4 might remain ff required, Immediate posscs- dition, containing 6 neh HAM & 8: aT Garten ‘Garten. torah pearl

rec, 8-10 bed and dreasing rooms, Co.'s eleo- mo. Or. appointment to view write Box Dethrooms, 3 ne a rooms, rooms, 3 modern ur and oie,

tric’ light. 100-160 acres of farmland with ‘roo ods kitehe Pr t
m, modern on. ‘arguct flooring ee creer
OUI rag ear me ont x ean wor MIRE, 12 milce from Ballsbury. beans pat ground floor, at I Beating, §—GUSSEX. Tp a fine position amid lovely
River Piddie.—Ownera wishing to sell please Well-built old stone Farmhouse, ar rounds, garage f or cart. country. Small and Sporting
communicate with BR. B. Tavioz & soxs, Water and electricity, up-to-date drainage. On £9,760 on w der an exchange for Property of. EG acres (including

16, Princes Street, Yeovil. two floors: ‘Three reception, ¢ bedrooms and house, bal oe must be modern and in good © woodland). 7-bedroomed Residenos. Fitted
pai cell te eel aresalng roo room, backroom, cloakroom, 2 stair. condition. ‘Cash justment, Stanmore or basins, central heading, main water and
tev. and 1 outdoor, servants’ © MIli Hill districts preferred.—Apply, Box 188. sey. Age dpe buildings;
sitting Tore ettohen. Annexe: 1 vory latge main wat alsetre ight and power installed 3
bedroom, would make 2. Harneas room, 2 » BWI. For Pan exocliont electric steriicer and s
-loose boxes. Garage. 1 acre attractive gar- ‘Bungalow, § acres, good fish! Servante Partlally covered yards. Proakoid. £20,000

den, Some trout fishing and more could available. [ow income-tax. » includ- with possession thi

robably be rented. £4,500. Open to offer. car, furniture, some plate snd tinen, £6,000. ute=-BOOET PISOHEE, ¥-4., “Haywards Hi
Pinmediate ponseusion.--Box’ 280, ing ger — : if

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 21, 1947 495

28b, ALBEMARLE ST.,
PICCADILLY, W.1

OSBORN & MERCER

MEMBERS OF THE CHARTERED SURVEYORS’ AND AUCTIONEERS" INSTITUTE

EAST DEVON HANTS.
i THE HEART OF EXMOOR 10 « exiendica position some B80 Jeet aon sez lave! with due | Situate am the border of Herbahina, in a euiet position sithin
‘The exceptionally attractive commodioua arpect. Within easy reach of Rreter. convenient reach of Wokingham, Winchfield and Kasinguoke,
A Delightful Residence of the Georgian
Freehold Aeelidential Property Period AN ATTRACTIVE MODERN HOUSE

approached by a carriage drive and containing
‘Two reception rooms, 4 bedrooms, bathroom.

Main water and gas. Electricity available. Garage.
EXCELLENT MODERN COTTAGE (at present let)

Matured gardens with lawns, flower and vogetabtc gardena,
small oro churd, in all

ABOUT 1 ACRE

FOR SALE FREEHOLD WITH VACANT POSSES-
SION OF THE HOUSE AND GARDENS.

Agents: OSBOKN & MERCER, as above, (M2471)

known ag

WINSFORD GLEBE, WINSFORD,
Nr, Minehead

Occupying a unique situation,’ facing South amd com-
thanding extensive view

Three reception rooms, 18 Dbedrooma, 4 bathrooms,
‘excellent domestic offices,

Range of stabling and garages. Groom's cottage.

Farm bulidings, AMERSHAM

Situate in une of the baat renidential parte of the district, within
Attractive gardens, tennis court, bath{ 1 and Hails, 3 reception, bililards room, IZ bedrooma 2 bathrooms ilar gp onda aeciad sri
wal 3 ia court, bathing pool and some s 5 le 6. al
60 ACRES of land. Own electricity. Excelient water supply. Central heating. a DEtIOUTeULS moe ur MODERN
iT \
Seabiing Sor, Boa: Garage, with hatl, 2 reception, sun ruam, € bedroome, batliroarn.

Ta be sol oth " 7 Well laid out gardens with lawns, tenni« courts, walled
be sold by Publie Auction at an early date, unless | vitohen garden, vinery, peach houses, ute. the whole All main services. Garage.

previously disposed of by private treaty.
oxtending te Charming garden exceptionatiy well maintained and

Full details of the Joint Auctionsers: Messrs. OSBORN ABOUT 5 ACRES amour) aon
AND MERCER, 24b, Albemarle Stroet, Pleoadlily, W.1, FOR SALE FREEHOLD ’

and Messrs. CHANIN & STHOMAS, 1, Bancks Streot, | It may be possible to purchase additional land up to 150 acres. FOR SALE FREEHOLD £7,000
Minebend, Somerset. Agents: OSBORN & MERCER, as above, (17,807) Agents: OBBORN & MERCER, an above,

(17,881)

83, MOUNT 6T.,

QROSVENOR 8Q., LONDON, W.1 WILSON & CO. 1049

NYN PARK, NORTHAW, HERTFORDSHIRE
Only 17 miles from London, Easy reach of Cockfosters and High Barnet on the Piccadilly and Northern Lines. 400 feet up in perfect seclusion.
SUPERBLY APPOINTED MODERN RESIDENCE IN FAULTLESS ORDER

set within lovely old pleasure grounds
in the centre of finely thnbered park
and woodlands.

Walled kitchen and fruit gardens,
Ornamental lake,

Nineteen bed and dressing rooms, 6
modern bathrooms, Jounge hall, 5
reception rvoms, radiators throughout,

Main electricity and water. QOnk
panelling oGitrauet: flours, — cholee
himney pleces.

Stabling, garages, cottages,
NEARLY 300 ACRES
with long road frontages,
Would make delightful Country Club with golf course, Suitable for scholastic or institutional purposes.
FOR SALE PRIVATELY OR BY AUCTION LATER
Bole Agents and Auctioneers: WiLson & Co., 23, Mount Street, London, W.1.

3, MOUNT ST.,

ONE OF THE STATELY HOMES OF ENGLAND
of Great Historical Interest and Antiquity

DORSET
6 miles from Dorchester, 12 miles Weymouth, 23 miler Bournemouth.
XVth-Century Domain of rare architectural beauty in a wonderful
State of preservation,

sympathetically restored and modernised whilst retaining all (te original medieval
featuros. Magolftcent tinenfold and other panelling.

Banqueting hall, superb orice] and gallery, great hall, 4 Teception rooms, 10 prince! rd
bed, ¥ bath and secondary accommodation. Central beating. Kievtric light.
Stabling, garage, 5 cottages,

Lovely old-wor}d gardens and grounds in beautiful maturity,
Walled kitohen and trult gardene.
Home farm with rich pasture and water meadows.
Parmhouse and 3 cottages.
Two miles of trout fishing.
280 ACRES FREEHOLD FOR SALE
Further particulars apply owner's Agents: RALPH Pay & TAYLOR, aa above,

TT uoou mae BENTALL, HORSLEY & BALDRY “oes

LONDON, 8.W.3

2 6S VERY PICTUNESQUE
{ 8 STAATPORD-ON: ae FROME-YEOVIL AND NEAR One of the best Dairy Ferns in the market, i St was the subject of a cee. Photograph in
‘plendid Mixed Farm, #40 ACRES, half SPARKFORD 7 A ree heed ACRES rich * Count?
Very nlco house, ee Suttdings. Several | Hish tthe-freo Dairy Farm pultablo 7.7., | "MAP Prose Ot dean, Foscinating old-world “Serior Cottage tn
ry nice i pf : Ings. Seve pL ACRES, mostly pastures, stream Superior residence, ail services. Modern ® pret: yan ge ear Bur Bt ea Heat
also Co. mains. a} ior with weal of
PosaeEsION IABEHOLD £9,000; WSF ANOS Oo otemaia ‘bulldings. cauipped buildings, tying St. M0 health ‘oak oors, Pyen fee roplcen, ele
GREATEST BARGAIN ON OFFER | POSSESSION = FREEHOLD £8,000 | POSSESSION FREEHOLD £11,000 ue oe 2 rene
at THOUT PARALLE! 2 sectactatchoees ( with h. and ¢.), eal modern bathroom,
! tiene. Ee pbout 50 ores a CHESHIRG w. suseExX usual domestic pain Main electricity.
. i f the best F 1 Fi 30 ACRES Telephone. fank creineee. 4
Rematch tony sol Splntia hou, | RROw' Yowly oe one of th pon, Rasag. | Attractive small Daly ori 20 8 4 Eres ran bene en
salon Preehoid onty

fine ee
tontafil ater, _ Exoeliant bu tulidings, oak—a picture. Mati water, electricity.
Mixerutors: must, sefl at ones, tying 40, fil health sole reason sele * PictaXoipbe buildings.”

Absolute enip af solv £8,600 Fevehoid.| POSSESSION FREEHOLD @7,000 Freeheld onty £4,600

Bole nte: Bawrau, HOMsLRY AND
ear 184, Bronipton Road, 6.W.3
(Ken. 0152).

Splendid farmhouse, ‘Blectelclty, pa | Fascinating Iéth-oentury reatdence full of

496 COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 21, 1947

=.= GEORGE TROLLOPE & SONS “aim

@ lines) (EsTaBLIgHED 1 and 4 Vistorin' st.
"25, MouNT ST., GEGevENOR $Q., W.I Westminster, 6.W.9

—~—"SURREY, NEAR GOLF —*|~~—S—~S:t:C PEE MELLESS RUGBY ————CS arcncoe He ammo mene eS ule
SURREY, NEAR GOLF FEW MILES RUGBY BORDERS OF CAMBS, BEDS, & HUNTS

London 22 miles. 400 ft. up. Station 1 mile. Glorious rurai position. Wonderful view. .

AUTIFUL PERIOP-STYLE HOUSE ATTRACTIVE-TWO-FLOOR RESIDENCE CHARMING 16th-CENTURY COTTAGE neal:
Nine bed., 3 bath., Srec, rooms. Allmains. Central heating. | Twelve bed., 3 bath., 4 rec. roams. E.l, Good water. | DENCE. Part tiled, part thatched roof. Can be used
Garage. Two cottages. Charming gerraced, arden. Hard | Central heating. Garage. Wirst-rate stabling. Cottage. | wa one or two houses, ‘Five bed., 2 bath. 4reception rome
court, meadows, woodland. Vacant | Beuutifully tlmbered grounds. Woodland and pasture, | Two kitchens, Main water and electricity. Garage, 1 ACRI
possession. Reoummended by J nt Sole agente: Menuts. 123 ACRES €15,000 of gardens. For Sale Privately or Auction tear,
IJBHETT, MOBELY, CARD & UO., ¥ station Road Kast, Oxted, | Gz0aGE TROLLOPE, & Sons, 25, Mount Street, London, | Joint Agents: 5, VY, KRING, ¥.4.1., Bt. Net Hunts 20) 5
Surrey: GRORAE TROLLOPR & SON, ne above, (1.1157) W.1, (Gro. 1553), (6709) GROKGE TROLLOPE & SONB, a8 above.

"Faroe A. W,,NEATE & SONS ~—

FRESH IN THE MARKET.
6 MILES HUNGERFORD

BETWEEN
NEWBURY AND READING

NEAR NEWBURY

High wituation adjoining Common with extensive views,

ABSOLUTE SECLUSION, WITHIN $ MILES MAIN

G.W.R,

CELLENT SMAI. DAIRY FARM LOVELY QUEEN ANNE VILLAGE HOUSE

PLEASANT OLD-FASHIONED FARMHOUSE
FINE MODERN HOUSE Seven to elght bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, lounge hall, 3 recep-

Modernixed, with 4 bedrooms, bathroom (h, and c.), 2 sit- tion rooms, offices with Kare cooker.
ting rooms and demextic offices,

Five to #ix bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 reception rooms,
compact modern offices with maids’ sitting room,

REAUTFUL GARDENS OF 2 ACRES

Main electricity. Excellent water supply, electrically
pumped, Hot-wator services,

DOUBLE GARAGE, 4) ACRES NATURAL WooD-
LAND SITE.

GARAGES FOR 38 AND OUTBUILDINGS,

COTTAGE AND AMPLE BUILDINGS.
Hleetric light, central heating, water by electric ponip. Electrie ight, central heating, maln water, main drainage,
Septic tank drainage, Well-placed enctomures of pasture and arable, in alt

VACANT POSSESSION.

PERFECT CONDITION THROUGHOUT. VACANT ABOUT 126 ACRES
POSSESSION.

FREEHOLD FOR SALE, WITH VACANT POSSES- | FAEEHOLD, ONLY £7,750, owner having purchased
FREEHOLD FOR SALE AT £6,280 ONLY SION OF THE WHOLE another property.

FAREBROTHER; ELLIS & CO.

Eetablished 1789 Telegrams:
w2aare/e/? AUCTIONEERS. CHARTERED SURVEYORS. LAND AGENTS “Farebrother, London”

29, FLEET STREET, LONDON E.C.4
CAMBERLEY

Within 10 minutes’ walk of station and shops.

GARDENER'S COTTAGE

A WELL BUILT RESIDENCE The well-timbered grounds are inexpensive to

fo parkilke surroundings. maintain and include a prolific kitchen garden;

10 BEDROOMS. BATHROOMS. total area extending to about

FINE SUITE OF ENTERTAINING BOOMS. 9 ACRES

CENTRAL HEATING. TO BE SOLD FREEHOLD.

ALL MAIN SERVICES. Vacant Possession on Completion.

GARAGK, SUITABLE FOR PRIVATE NURSING

HOME OR SCHOOL

for turther particulars apply: FARESROTHER, ELLi6 & CO., 29, Fieet Street, E.C.4. CENtral 8344.

een eet cs GIDDY & GIDDY eee
A LUXURIOUS RIVERSIDE HOUSE SURREY AND BERKS BORDERS

Situated on one of the most attractive fachas Of the River Phames ae 1 mile station. 40 minutes Waterloo,
MAIDENHEAD COURT COUNTRY RESIDENCE OF CHARACTER, adloining golf links. uae bod. 8 bath,

Beautifully fitte with rec., etc. Main electric light, gas and water. Heated hauffeur's
7 blrooms, 2 bathrooms, fiat” stabling. Beautifully timbered grounds, woodland and a ped oko of 3 ACRES.
3 reception rooms, Dillards MODERATE PRICK, FREEHOLD VACANT POSSESSION

rooms oomipact domestic
offier,, Central heating and Agents: QIDDY & Grppy, Sunningdale (Te}.; Asoot 73).
ull {vain - hee ¢ au
Se eae akne en ddine VIRGINIA WATER, SURREY
3 . Stabling. Glass ry Ph 2
hose wet vaurahered Few minutes station, half-hour Victoria.
rounds, with landin, nine, VERY CHARMING MODERN fi DENCE, in lovely poal
fr all about 2 acr 7 bed, 4 bath, 3 reception, good offices. Central heating, tele mene a mst fecooorated;
or sate par ately. + Ld by garage. Loveiy garden ore a telepher

‘A VIEW OVER CLIVEDEN Woop Gipy & Gippy, Maidenhead Sole Agenta; Gippy & Gtppy, Sunningdale (Tel.; Ascot 73),

GOUNTRY LIFE— MARCH 21, 1947 497

5, MOUNT &T.
LONDON, W.1

SUSSEX—KENT BORDERS
Landon 47 miles, On high ground.
A DIGNIFIED YEOMAN’S HOUSE

2 IN FIRST-CLASS
ORDER THROUGHOUT

Seven bedrooms, dressing
room, 8 reception rooms,
3 bathrooma.

Central heating.
Kicctricity. Two cottages.
Large iake.

82 ACRES
FOR SALE FREEHOLD

Vacant Possession on Gornpistion.
Owner's London Agents: Curtis & HENSON, 5, Mount Street, London, W.1.

Grosvenor

pas : ‘TRESIDDER & CO.

CURTIS & HENSON

Grosvenor 3131 (3 lines!
Btablished 1875

WEST SUSSEX, NEAR PETWORTH

Station 2 miles, Express London traina in 1} Aours,
A BEAUTIFUL SUSSEX STONE-BUILT MANOR HOUSE

Restored and modernised.
Perfect order. Well equip-
ped. Eight bed and dress-
ing rooms, 3 bathrooma,
hall, 8 fine reception rooms,
sorvants’ aitting room. Aga
cooker, Electric light,
ample water, central heat-
ing. Garages, stabling.
Rodge, Detightful landscape
Rardens.

ABOUT 16 ACRES

Freehotd for Sale privately or by Auction in the early apring.
Sole Agents: CUrtin & HENSON, 5, Mount Steet, Wal.

Telegrams:
“Cornishmen, London''

77 SOUTH AUDLEY STREET, W.1

KENT, NEAR BORDERS OF SURREY AND SUSSEX

re $ . Clore to buy service Eden-
a bridge-Tunbridge Wells.
1 mile sation, amidst de-
Hightful country.

CHARMING
OLD RESIDENCE
with old brick fireplaces,
vak flours and panoliing:
Lounge hall, 3. reception,
Dilllards room, 3 bathrooms,
5 bedrouma (3 h. and c.),
main water and electricity,
Kine cooker. Telephone,
Garage. Stables, Chauf-
four’s fat. Nicely timbere:
grounds. Swimming pool,
Orchard and meadowland.

10 ACRES £9,000 MIDVER & CU., 77, South Audley Street, W.1. 9,969)

EXETER 10 MILES. CHARMING OLD-WORLD RESIDENCE, part Queen

Aunc, Four reception (one panelled), 2 bath., @ bedrooms, electric light, central

. Telephone, Garage, stabling. Inexpensive gardens, lawns, orcharding, etc.

2) ACRES, £7,500 OR NEAR OFFER.——TrxsippRR & Co., 77, South Audiey
Street, W.1. (22063)

SALISBURY
(Tel. 2491)

NEVER BEFORE IN THE MARKET.

FLAMATON FARM

Illustrated particulars and plans, price 6/-, in die ocvurse from the eae gs

WOOLLEY & WALLIS

By direction of the Kart of Pembroke and Montgomery, M.V.O0., The Lord Herbert, C.V.0., and their Trustecs,

THE WILTON ESTATE, SOUTH WILTS

T. MARGARETS, MIDDLESEX, EXCELLENT A DENCE with access to

extensive private gardons, Threo reoeption, 2 bath., 5-7 bed. (2h. and.) All
main services. -Telephone. Garage. ice garden with gate to 7 ACRE private
wardens with lake, ete, FREEHOLD ©8,000.—Tresippkx & Co., 77, South Audley
Btreet, Wl. {22993}

I1DDX.-BUCKS BORDERS. PERFECT QEORGIAN RESIDENCE in frst-
claga condition. Hall, 3 reception, cloakroom, 3 bathrooms, 5-7 bedrooms. All
Inain services. Central heating. Telephone. 2° @ARAGES with FLAT OVER
gt bresent let). Nleely simbored grounds, kitchen and fruit garden and orchard.
staat €10,000 FREEHOLD.---Tresipper & Co, 77, Mouth Audley Strect,
a }

XON-BUCKS BORDERS, 6} mllew Princes Risborough. Attractive stone-built

Residence, lovely views. Lounge hail, 4 reception, 8 bath., 11 bed. Main elee-
tricity, eentrai Heating. Stabling for 5, Onrages ete. Well-timbered grounds.
Kitchen garden, orchard and meadowlaud. KEHOLD.- Txxsippan & Co.,
77, South Audley Btreet, W.1. 2 ais,

Fins’ LABS COUNTRY HOTEL (CLUB LICENCE) [|
weer GLOUCESTERBHIRE. Excclicnt Modernised Country House, 800 ft. up,
magnificent views. Five reception, 2 bath,, 16 bed. (6h, and c¢.}, part eontral
heating, electric light. Aga couker, telephone. Garage, outhouses, Charming groutids,
productive fruit und vegetable gardens aud meadow, 12 AC! £16,000 *REE-
OLD FOR QUICK BALE, LOCK, 6TOCK AND BARRE! “TResippmR & Co.,
77, South Audley Street, Wot. (22,460)

and at RINGWOOD
& ROMSEY

Near GALIBBURY

An outlying portion of thia old estate.
3,000 ACRES

in a compact block and in # ring fence.
Running from the Ebble Valley to the hil ridge. Some of the most honest.

CORN AND DAIRY LAND
In the south of England, comprising
FIVE LARGE FARMS
well known and of outstanding merit eaoh with
RESIDENCES OF EXCEPTIONAL GHARACTER
let on Yearly Tenancies to excellent tenants.
52 COTTAGRS

Accommodation meadows. Valuable water cress bed. Trout fishing in the chalk stream and

partridge shoot In hand.

‘To be SOLD BY AUCTION, as « whole or In Lote, during MAY, 1047,

Mesars. NicHOLL, Manisty & Faw, 1, Howard Strect. Strand, London, W.C.2, and from
Anstinnesra, aa above, -

wit = ALFRED PEARSON. & SON smntbciue

A MINIATURE ESTATE IN FAVOURED SUSSEX

Horsham district,

SUBSTANTIALLY BUILT RESIDENCE in quict country position, Seven hed
and dresaing rogma ali with fitted lavatory basins, 2 bathrooms, 3 reception rooms,
good offices. Pleasant garden and grounds.

Central heating throughout, Company's dectric light
Balliff's bungalow. Two cottages. Farmery with cow house, stabling, loose boxes, ete.
Extending in all to about 62 ACMES sincluding valuable timber)
FREEHOLD FOR SALE WITH EARLY POSSESSION.

YATELEY
In the olllaga,

An opportunity to secure for early occupation a GENTLEMAN'S IMPOSING
MESIDENCE, having all modern conventences and containing ¢ principal bedrooms,
8 maids’ ditto, 2 bathrooms, 4 reception rooms and good offices.

Garage and stabling. Matared garden with hard tennis court,

. HANTS. Tel.: 118

IN THE CENTRE OF THE NEW FOREST
Situate in delightful surroundings unrivalled in Hampshire.
A MAGNIFICENT MANBION.

Krected regardless of expenne, the intertor containing bexutifil oak-panelled walla
with carvings by well-known oraftamen,

Eight iuxurtous recep-

tion rooms, 5 principal

bedrooms each with

bathroom, 17 other

bedrooms, bathrooms,
ote.

Modern: central heating

ayetem with automatic

stokers. Co.'s clectric
Night.

Superior lodge entranos. Fine stabling and garages with staff flats,
Delightfu) pleasure and kitchen ns with woodland, Ip all ABOUT 40 ACRES,
The whole in perfect condition.

Held onfCrown Lease 85 yeare unexpired at £86 per annum.

BEST OFFER OVER £8,000 BECURTS

498

Telegrams:

“Weed, Agents, Weado,
Londes.”'

COUNTRY LIFE~MARCH 21,

JOHN. D., WOOD & CO.

23, BERKELEY SQUARE, LONDON,

By diradion of the Rt. Hon, Lord Geddes of Rolvenden, P.C., @.C.M.@., E.C.B.

A BEAUTIFUL OLD ENGLISH MANOR
HOUSE DATING FROM SAXON TIMES

Heavily oak timbered. In exceptionally fine
condition,

Hall, study, 8 reception rooms, 10 bed and
3 dressing rooms, 6 bathrooms; Aga cooker.

MAIN WATER AND ELECTRICITY.
SEPTIC TANK DRAINS.
CENTRAL HEATING.

By direction of Et.-Col. Julian Fisher, C.M.G., D.S.0.

FRENSHAM, THE LAYNE ROLVENDEN,

Tn good state of repair, easy
to maintain. Hall, 3 recep-
tlon rooms, schoolroom,
418 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms,
excellent offices, Main eles-
tric light. Ample water.
Central heating. Modern
drainage. Gardenor’s cot-
tage. Bungalow residence.
Stabling. Garage. Lovely
old-world gardons and park-
like lands.

1947

KENT

Outbuildings. Garages. Two service cottages.
Delightful gardens and orchards.

ABOUT 16 ACRES

TO BE SOLD FREEHOLD
WITH POSSESSION

Highly recommended as one of the Anest of

the smaller country houses of Kent by the

Sole Agents: Joux D. Woop & Co., as above.

(82,207)

THE TTCHEN VALLEY, NEAR WINCHESTER

Near bus
Wold stéuated property,

Ey pegention, - Principal

bath, in

suites, 7 other bod, 2 other

bath. Modern offices. Part

central heating. Main
services,

(Fitted curtains and car-
tn could be taken over.
arages, stablin;

chauffour's flat. allod

kitchen gardena. Gardener's
cottage.

Gardens, pasture and water
meadows,

#@ ACRES

services. Fast trains to London.
agceliently kept, facing south with distant views.

THE TUDOR RESIDENCE

In alt @@ ACRES

For Sale with VACANT POSSESSION of the RESIDENCE, COTTAGES, GROUNDS.

Joun D, Woop & Co., as above.

(5,486)

LEICESTERSHIRE AND NORTHAMETONSHIRE BORDERS

Market Hari

ster 15 miles,

‘borough Leioe
WELL-BUILT MOvmAN RESIDENCE

rticulars from; J.

Further
JouN D, Woop & Co., 23, Berkeley Square, London, W.1.

Nine bed and dressing
rooms, 3 reception, 8 bath-
rooms, complete offices,
Contral beating. Company's
water, electricity, main
drainage. Stabling, Gar-
ages. Cottage. Beautiful
grounds, Kitchen garden
and agricultural lands.

About 23 ACRES

Vacant Posssesion of
houes and grounds,

TOLL#R Kady, Exchange Buildings, Market Harborough:

About a mile of fishing in the main etream
VACANT POSSESSION OF ALL EXCEPT TH
Surveyors: Pink & ARNOLD, Westgate Chambers, Winchester.

Agents; Joun D, Woop & Co., as above.
FOR SALE AS A WHOLE _OR WITH A SMALLER AREA
BANBURY

1% miles from a station and 7% from Banbury. Hunting with the Grafton and Btoester.

THIS ATTRACTIVE
MODEAN HOUSE,

facing south, with lovely
view, Seven bed (3 with
h, and o,), 3 bath, 3 recep-
tion, Centra) heating.
Main electricity. Hard
teunis court. Two modern
cottages. Bight loose boxes.
Garage. Excellent farm
duildings and land, in all

About 212 ACRES
The house and one

Further particulara: JoHn D.

SURREY-SUSSEX BORDERS
station on Southern Electric Express service. Convenient for bus service
00 feet above sea level. Glorious panoramic views of the South Downs and

(50,829)
HERTS-ESSEX RD
BO! ERS One mile from
CHARMINGTHALF-TIMBEZRED HOUSE and shops.
Three reception, bed- UNIQUE LABOUR-

SUNNINGDALE
Adjoining the Links.

COLLINS & COLLINS

50, BROOK STREET, MAYFAIR, LONDON, W.1.

fooms, 2 bathrooms.
MAIN WATER,

ELECTRIOITY AND
DRAINS.

Centra) heating.
Cottage. Attractive mar:
dens and paddock.

7 ACRES

TO BE SOLD WITH POSSESSION. PRICE £8,000
Inspected and recommended by JonN D. Woop & Co., as above.

(88,497)

SAVING MODERN
HOUSE

Built in 1987, with @ bed-
rooms, 8 bathrooms, 8
reception roems, sun loggia.
CENTRAL HEATING,
MAIN ELECTRICITY,
[POWER AND WATER.

Garage for 8 cars tand flat
over.

Inexpensive grounds and woodland.
Inspected and recommended by JonN D. Woop & Co., as above,

(62,287)

cottage and about 3¢ ACRES are In hand.
cop & Co., 28, Berkeley Square, W.1. (52,140)

Chanctonbury Ring.

in all nearly 12 ACRES
(22,060)

Tel; Mayfair 6248

WELL-APPOINTED MODERN RESIDENCE

Bight dest bedrooms arranged

tn suites with h. and o.

basins, 6 bathrooms, 6 sor-

wants’ bedrooma, 3 raception
rooms.

ALL SERVICES.

CENTRAL HEATING.
GARBAGE.

Delighttul gardens of 1%
ACRES with gates direct
on to the Course,

* TO BE SOLD WITH VACANT POSSESSION

Sole Agents: Coutims & CoLtine, 60, Brook Strest, Mayfair, London, W.1.

Tel; Mayfair 6248,

SPRING FISHING,
accommodation, Ref, 2625.

seems, C. W. INGRAM, Fs... ateens
SCOTTISH SHOOTINGS AND FISHINGS TO LET

QROUSE SHOOTING AND STALKING in Inverness-shire over 30,000 ACRES.
Also salmon fishing. House has ample accommodation and electric light. Ref. 9826,

CAPITAL STALKING on mainland and an island in Argel, Rough shooting and
sea fishing. Large house and smaller one on island. Ref. 796!

SALMON FISHING in Sutherland. Hote] accommodation. Ref. 1574B.

GROUSE AND STAGB in Inverncés-chire ove
# family bedrooms and elestric light. Service if desired. Ref. 26:

SALMON AND TROUT Yeon try a. River Don. Several beats available. Hotel
odation. Refs. 811A and 7.

QOOD STALKING OVER 8,000 ACRES in Inverness-shire. Convenient hotel.
Ref. 9384.
Balmon and Sea Trout in South Esk River Hotel

For Goottish Propertics
C. W. INGRAM, £.8.1., 80, PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH

Tel.: 82261

Avaliable in 1947.

r 13,000 yeaa House with

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 21,

HARRODS

34-36, HANS CRESCENT, LONDON. S.W.1

ESTATE

Kensington 14800
‘Telegrams.
“Getate, Harrods, London"

RURAL HERTS c.2
In the Puckeridge Hunt, 33 miles London. { mile Village.

CHARMING ELIZABETHAN THATCHED
COTTAGE

3 reception rooms, 2 double and 3 single bedrooms, bath-
room, Main water and electricity (newer points in all
roonn). Telephone, modern drainage.
Well-etocked and maintalned garden of about t; ACRE
FREEHOLD £4,750

VACANT POSSESSION

Harkoneg Ltp., 34-36, Hans Crescent, Knightsbridge, S.W.1
(Peis Kensington 1490. ztn. 809.)

12 bedrooms, 4 bat

ADJOINING A SURREY GOLF COURSE

Charming house in a glorinus position on high ground facing South. Convenient Sunningdale and Woking. About 28 miles Londun,

THE MODERN RESIDENCE

is lavishly fitted, approached by 2 avenue drives. Four reception,
it. gas and water, Central

8, Co's electric Ii
heating. Modern dralnage.

Stabling and garage. Double lodge.
Full-aige skittle alley.

THE GROUNDS

2 cottages.

are & feature, banks of rhododendron’, hard tennia court, farge
kitchen garden, orchard, woodland walks, two paddocks, In all

about

60 ACRES. FOR SALE FREEHOLD

Sole Agents: HaRBODS Lrp., 34-36, Hans Crescont, 8.W.1,

(Tel.. Rensington 1490. Extn, 807).

c.4

diatrict,

ESSEX
36 minutes London. Close to golf course. Favour
a Po

BEAUTIFUL MODERN HOUSE

with a lovely garden. Large lounge hall, 2 reception reoma,

panelled billisrds room, 8 bed and dreasing rooms, 2 bath-

rooms, complets offices, Ail Co.'s mains. Aun couker,

Garage for 2 cars, Useful outbuildings. Delightful
grounds in excelent order, paddock, etc,

IN ALL 4 ACRES
Freehold for Sale on reasonable terms.

34-46, Haus Crescent, K nightabridge. $.W.1
enaingion 1490, Hatn, 806).

Harrops Lt
(Te

1947

OFFICES
ncaa

SUSSEX

About 800 ft. above sea level,

CHARACTER RESIDENCE, CAPITAL
FARM OF ABOUT 150 ACRES

mes ,

e.3

Splendit buildings, J cottages,
‘The residence believed 16th century, hall, 2 receytion, 4
bedrooms, bathroom, large space in roof (convertible 2
extra rooms). Modern drainage. Co's clectric Light and
water, Land with south slope Includes pasture and arable
land, about 30 ACREB of woodland, Stream bounding
property.

FOR SALE FREEHOLD

Inspected and atrongly recommended by the Bole Agenta:

Hargrove £1 p., 34-36, Hans Creacent, Knightabridge, 5.W.1

and Messra. ROWLAND QORRINGE & Co,, 64, High Street,
Lower, BURHeEX,

KENT AND SUSSEX BORDERS

ROTATE
Orricus

WOKING, SURREY

Attractive Residence with southern aspect and pleasant
Open situation overlooking golf courae, about 1 mile from
station and near bus route.

Twelve bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 4 reception rooms, lounge
hall, garages,
@rounde approximately 24, acres.
Central Heating. Main Services.
PRICK £10,800 FREEHOLD

Agente: Bexrai.e, LTD., Kingston.

“ PICKFORDE,’' TICEHURST
QEORGIAN-STYLE RESIDENCE

on two floors, High position, Good views, 7 main bed
and dressing-rooma (i, «& e.), day nursery, lounge hall,
3 ecoeption, 4 bathrooms, billiards room. Separate wing of
4 rooms suitable for staff cottage. Co's services. “Aga”
cooker, Garage for 4. Stabling, small farnmory, Cottage,
Delightful grounds, walled kitchen garden, pasture, ete.

ABOUT 14 ACRES

for Sale by Auction (unless previously eold privately)
on May 16, ssa ‘at Funbeldge Welle.

Joint Auctioneers: Mewirs, ARTHUR L. Rusa, 49, High
Street, Tunbridge Wells (7'el.: 2772) and Mankops Lin.

34-36, Hans Crescent, Knightabridge, 8.W.1. (Tel, :
Kensington 1490, Hztn. 806/41.)

BENTALLS

KINGSTON-UPON- THAMES, SURREY

CLAYGATE, SURREY

Matured House in perfect order throughout in delightful
wonded grounde of over 3 acres, completely aeciuded
yot near the centre of the village.

Four main and 4 sec, bedrooms, 3 reception rooms,
excellent domestic offices cloakroom, bathroom, ctc.

Grounds laid out regardless of cost: with lawns, flagged
footpaths, eroamental ponds, rockeries, and a private
swimming pool.

PRICE &8,500 FREEHOLD

Agente: BenraLis, Lrp., Kingston.

c.24

Telephone:
Kingston 1001.

PICTURESQUE WEST SUSSEX

In secluded poaltion within 1 mile of sen and easy reach
of atation, s unique modern Country Houte, designed by
well-known architect on labour-arving Lines,

4-6 bedrooms (fAtted basins), bathrooms, 2-3 reception
rooms, hail with cloakroom, gurage,

Grounds approximately Gore.
All main services.

PRICE 69,500 FREEHOLD

Agents: DEwra.is, Lrp., Kingston,

nn ree ean

OWNERS OF SMALL COUNTRY HOUSES wishing to dispose of their properties are invited to send

details to Bentalls Eatate Offices,

who have an extensive register of applicants seeking this type of property.

499

P COUN: RY LIFE-—MARCH 21,

BOURNEMOUTH:

WILLLAM FOX, P61, F.4.1.
‘B, STODDART FOX, ¥.8.1,, F.A.L.
H. DAMLEY-POX, F.5.1, FAL.

ON TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1947

IMPOGING FAMILY RESIDENCE

“Trelawno,” 16, The Avenne, Branksome Park, Solicitors:
Messrs, Lacky & Sonu, 75, Poole Road, Bournemouth,

FREEHOLD REGENCY MANSION

89, Adolaldo Creacent, Hove, Solicitors: Messrs. PETTIVER
4ND Puankus, 5, Dowgate HIll, Cannon Btreet, K.C.4.

MOPERN DETACHED RESIDENCE
“Crantock,” Station Road, Challey, Suse Soticltora:

Mevsrs, COMBOUENK, BosH' & BARTLETT, 62, Old Steins,
Brighton.

MODERN BUNGALOW

seeginta. " Springfield Avenue, Telscombe Cliffs, Sussex,
Sollciters; Mossra, BEDFORD & Co., Nowhaven, Sussex.

FREEHOLD VILLA

“Bunrise,’* Broomfield Avenue, Telacombe Cliffe, Sussex.
Bolicltor: J, Hopaxs, Kag., 67, Gildredge Road, Kastbourne.

FREEHOLD TERRACE PROPERTY
18, Hanover Crescent, Brighton. Solicitors: Messrs.

Woottey & Co,, Quadrant Chambers, Prince Square,
Volverhum pton,

AGRICULTURAL AND SPORTING PROPERTY

Marchwood Park Kstate, Marchwood, Hants, extending to
an aren of about 174 ACRES. Solicitors: Messrs, Exvon,
Lissy & Firra, 6, Portland Street, Southampton.

ON WEDNESDAY,

FREEHOLD AKSIDENCE

MARCH 26, 1947

“The Oli Manor House,” 58, Manor Road, Worthing.
Solleitor: L, G, Duznick, Eeq., 10, The Arcade, Worthing.

COTTAGE STYLE RESIDENCE

Florida — Hoad,
Fownre, Laaa & Co.,

“Morle."*
Messrs.

Ferring-by-Sen. Solicitora:
jedford Row, W.C,L.

ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1947

SUBSTANTIALLY BUILT RESIDENCE

24, Talbot Avenue, Bournemonth. Solicitors: Mossra.
PRESTON & REDNAN, Hinton House, Hinton Road,
Hournemouth.

ON THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1947

FREEHOLD RESIDENCE

“Coombe Lodge," 60, Wentworth Avenue, ournomouth.
Solicitors; Messrs. Hvon, Pook & S0N8, Under Sherlff
Office, South Petherton.

INVESTMENT PROPERTIES

20 and 22, Cardigan Road, and 1, Junction Road, Bourne-
mouth, ‘Solicitors: Measra. MASLEN @& MASLEN, 596,
Christchurch Road, Boscombe.

FOX & SONS

LAND AG!
BOURNEMOUTH—SOUTHAMPTON-—-BRIGHTON—WORTHING

A SELECTION OF FORTHCOMING PROPERTY AUCTION SALES

Thursday, April 10, 1947—-continued

DETACHED RESIDENCE

“Hurlingham,” Albert Road, Upper Parkstone. Solicitors:
‘Mosers. Puitir KVANS & INSLEY, 24-26, Westover Hoed,
Bournemouth.

FREEHOLD BUNGALOW

*Seacroft,” 65, Austin Avenue, Littiput, Dorset. Solicitors:
Messrs. Ruyxotps & Hewirt,; 15, Avenue Road, Kourne-
mout

ON TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1947

PREEHOLD RESIDENTIAL ESTATE
“Clayton Holt,” Hassocks, Sussex, extending to an area of
about 107 ACRES. Solicitors: Mesa, HALL, BRYDON,
Hanvey & EpRRTON, Arundel House, Arundel Street, W.C.3

AESIDENTIAL COUNTRY PROPERTY
“Brewery House,” Werehacn,. Doract. Solicitors: Mensra.
CHURCH, ADAMS, TATHAM & (O., 19, Lincoln's Inn Field,

London,
FREEHOLD RESIDENCE
G, King’s Gardens, Hove, Solicitors: Messrs, PERKOFY AND
Co,, 1, Commercial Street, Aldgate, E.1.
INVESTMENT PROPERTY

41. Brahew lee Place, Hov icitors: Messrs. OSMAN.
WARD & SONS, a, ie ural Street, Hove.

INVESTMENT PROPERTY

34, Vernun Terrace, Brighton. Solicitors: Messrs. Osman,
Warr & 4on, 37, Church Road, Hove.

ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1947

RESIDENTIA. -ROPERTY

“Fair Winds,” 64, Browning Avonuc. Boseombe. Sollicl-
tore: Mosers. MOORING, ALDRIDGE «& HROWNLEE, 80,
Wimborne Road, Winton, Bournemouth.

ON THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1947

‘
DETACHED FREEHOLD AESIDENCE
“Norfolk,” 20, St. Luke’s Road, Bournemouth, Solicitors:
Messre. Saut, Howar® & YOUNG, 40, Old Christchurch

d, Bournemouth

FREEHOLD RESIDENTIAL AND AGRICULTURAL
PROPERTIES
“Cowesfleld,” near Whiteparish, Hante, extendlug to an
ACRES. Sol:

area of about licitor: CoLin MoCaRRAuRR,
Ksq., 3, Cottage Place, London Road, Southampton.

INVESTMENT PROPERTIES

7, Windermere Road and 63, Brassey Road, Winton,

Bournemouth. Solicitors: Mcssrs, MOORING, ALDRIDGE

AND HaYDON, Westover Chambers, Hinton Road, Bourne-
mouth,

DETACHED LEASEHOLD RESIDENCE

“Luan,” 20, Methuen Road, Bournemouth. Solicitors:
Messrs. MARBHALL, Hakvay & Datton, Argyle Chambers,
Fir Vale Road, Bournemouth.

1947

SOUTHAMPTON :

ANTHONY B. FOR, ¥.8.1., P.A.t,

©. BRIAN OOK, #.8.1, dat
BRIGHTON:

4. 7, BYERS, A. KILVINGPON

ON THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1947
MAGNIFICENT FREEHOLD RESIDENCE ON
ISLAND SITE
“Reuval,”’ Lindsay Road, Branksome Park, Hournemouth,
Solicitors; Messrs, VZARD, OLDHAM, aneet & Case,

61, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C.2.
FREEHOLD QROUND RENTS OF £1,000 P.A.
Secured on valuable commercial premises in the heart of
Itors: Mosars, P:

Bournemouth. Sollel RESTON & REDMAN,
Hinton House, Hinton Road, Bournemouth.

ON FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1947

ULTRA MODERN RESIDENCE
“Villa Marina,” Little Orme, Llandudno, North Wales.
Solicitors: Messrs, CHAMBERLAIN, JOUNNON & PARKK,

Trinity Square, Llandudno (in conjunction with Marranw
Ryan, HLAKR & WiLLIAMA).

ON TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1947

PR&SHOLD AKBIDENCE
“‘Autolat,’’ Mountbatten Rord. Branksome Park,

Kournemouth. Solicitors; Messrs, PoTreR, CRUNDWELL
AND BRIDGER, Farnhan, Surrey,

AT EARLY DATES

IMPOSING MARINE MANSION

“Teak House,” Branksome Park, Bournemouth, with

10 ACRES of grounds and*woodlands. Solictturs: Messrs.

Cas. @. Lastee & Rossmu,, Digby Chambers, Post
Office Road, Bournemouth.

RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY

“Mepal 6, McKinlay Road, Bournemouth. Solicitors:
wre. OWSTON & Co., 23, Friar Lane, Ieicerter,

LANGDOWN LAWN ESTATE
Hy! the, nest Southampton, extending to an area of about.
wa as. feitors: Mesure, Woopcock, RYLAND AND
. 15, Bloomsbury Square, London, WAG.
FREEHOLD RESIDENCE
“Westwood,"’ 9, Elgin Road, Bournemouth. Solicitors:
Messrs, MalTuanp, DURRANT GRANGE: BENNETT,
$, Hinton Chambers, Bournemouth.
VALUABLE FREEHOLD COMMERCIAL SITE
Poole Quay, Dorset, Solloltors; Messrs, PHIMP EVANS AND
INGLEY, 24-26, Westover Road, Hournemouth.
FREEHOLD RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
“Bridge House,” South | Petherton, Somerset, extending

to an area of about 23 ACRES. Bolicitora: Mesera.
BiLount, Peta & Co., 8, Cartos Place, Grosvenor Sq., W.1.

PARTICULARS OF THE ABOVE PROPERTIES MAY BE OBTAINED OF FOX & SONS AT THEIR BOURNEMOUTH
BRIGHTON

17, HLAGRAVE STREET, READING.

AVEBURY, GORING, OXON

Ton minutes walk from Goring and Streatley Station, 9 miles from Reading.

The abireot ve well-planned
hovse oi
sion wit! pout Isolation on
the higher ground away
from the river.

FREEHOLD.
Auctioneers; RUBSELL, BorLae & Manus, 6, Market above Beading.
Wr re.

3 OR 7 ACRES.

LRY-SMITH & Co., a8 al

A SEAUTIPWL BTONE-|
miles from Oxford and W

Three eltting, &
ULLRELEY-BMITH (ne a

WELLESLEY-SMITH & CO.
Reading 2020 & 4112.

For Sate Privately or by Auction on April 15 next.

prt offices, Co.'s elec:
icity, gas and water.
Garages, Man's room a!

outbuiidin, Well-tim-

bered Co jen, orchard and

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glectrictyy. and water, central heating. Excellent bulidings and model farmery. All in.
ban bave).

OFFICES (Telephone: Bournemouth 6300, 5 lines), AND AT SOUTHAMPTON,

Wallington 2606
(4 lines)

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Long drive.
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SURREY HILLS. CHIPBTEAD. BEAUTIFUL!

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rooms, 2 reception (24 ft.

qi Highly recommend a 6806 (Follo 8318)
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PRESENT ON OPFEA in Surrey. Many remarkable features, including oak
joinery, peiclagreinteed Lounge-hall, cloakroom, 2 very large reception, 4 double bed-
staircase, tiled, up-to-date Offices. Double garage, Ghori

i Moork & Co., a8 above.

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position 12 miles Canterbury. Aix,
te domestic offices, Garage. NEARLY zy ‘AChEe. FREZHOLD £4,500.

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AND WORTHING

Auctionecra and
Surveyors

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Six bedrooms (all one floor),
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MOORE & CoO.,

CARSHALTON

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n. Five bed-
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_(Folla 941)

iy xy yeu design, ralet, ful
bedroor reception, hail, cloakroom, etc.

(Folio 3468)
catate about 380 ACARD with CHARMING

paddocks, with bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 reception, hall, cloakroom,
etc, Oak floors, central heating, eto. Pavourite area 8 nalles Sa isbury, FREKHOLD
VACANT ‘posenss TON. £16,000. (Folio 3461)
dA, t A irks. 2 ent sale le and wi
Hand Agente: Mi ‘hatched roof and a grest deal of oak. Pour beloome n (21 ft.
x 18 ft, sic). hall with room. Two-car garage. Old ‘barn th eH 1 ACRE.
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poms efter position. an pid station, ol Four_ ber

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COUNTRY LIFE--MARCH 50!

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COUNTRY LIFE--MARCH 50!

She took endless pains to look her loveliest, but
a re
“vt avlisg, ayoee
oe %
Bok sired,

BB SAID

A man, in his tenderness, can strike a blow at the happiness E s§ § E N T I A L T 0
of a pretty woman ; for she knows that a tired look means an old

look. So it’s never too early to start using Skin Deep PRESENT a DAY DIET

faithfully day and night. Skilfully blended with oils, closely
resembling the natural ones in your complexion. Skin Deep is
really good fur your skin. It's a lovely, lasting powder hase

Imperative to your body’s welfare is an adequate
supply of those essential vitamins, A and D. You

pitkUiy CREAM diet deficiencies.

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OBTAINABLE ONLY FROM CHEMISTS
Capsules, per bottle of 25, 2/6 ; 100, 8/6

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Chamber during the winter. It may be, she
feels, a garlanded bowtr when the warm
sun shines, but during the long frost Jast
January... . Brrr!

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502 COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 21, 1947

An 18th-Cenrury interior with reproduction furniture

of the Chippendale style makes this pleasing group.
Harrods have many such examples of handsome
period pieces in their Furniture Galleries on the

third floor.

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COUNTRY LIF

Vol. CI No. 2618 MARCH 21, 1947

Pearl Freeman

MISS PRISCILLA BULLOCK

Miss Priscilla Bullock, the daughter of vo Malcolm Bullock, MP., and of the late Lady Victoria

Bullock, is to be married on April 9 to Peter Hastings, son ‘of the late the Hon. Aubrey Hastings
and of the Hon. Mrs. Hastings

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A GRAVE RESPONSIBILITY

Gives in hundred thousand ewes lost their

lives in the recent blizzards, and this year’s

lamb crop will fall far short of expectations,
Even on the lowland farms thousands of lambs
born in February and early March perished in
the cold. ‘The shepherd never had a more trying
lambing season. These losses in the flocks do
not stand alone. Farmers were unable to touch
the land for many weeks, and the spring sowing
programme is seriously jeopardized. No one
can estimate yet what the cost will be in crop
output. In any event the country can ill-afford
the loss of home food production in a year
when we already have to anticipate an adverse
balance of £350,000,000 in overseas trade.

In these circumstances the inertia of the
Ministry of Agriculture must be strongly con-
demned. Farmers like Mr. Tom Williams ; he
impresses everyone he meets as a sincere man,
has the interests of agriculture at heart. But
he is too easy-going for these days, and he is
allowing the agricultural industry a too easy
pace. While the Economic Survey White Paper
recognises that food production at home is
second only to coal production as a national
asset that must now be developed to the full,
the Cabinet have apparently no clear policy for
securing increased food production. The state-
ment on prices made recently by Mr. Williams
declared the importance of extra output, especi-
ally of pig meat and eggs, two items in our
overseas purchases which come now mainly
from the United States and Canada. Can these
sources of supply be replaced before our credits
with the United States and Canada are
exhausted? The American loan will not last us
much beyond the autumn of 1948, The Minister
of Agriculture seems to see no hope of increasing
our pigs and poultry until 1949 or 1950. But
if the Government are really serious about the
need for increased production at home, they
could declare now to farmers that if they begin
to increase numbers they will be allowed to keep
for feeding to stock more of the grain that they
themselves grow. The offer of higher prices for
eggs and bacon pigs can avail little until the
farmer cam count on more feeding-stufis.

The Ministry must tow, too, how vital it
is to full crop production to have ample supplies
of fertilisers, Yet for the first time the permits
issued to farmers for potash fertilisers cannot
be honoured. At least a quarter of the potash
farmers need to grow full crops of potatoes and
fruit will be missing. The Minister has offered
various excuses, but they will be little comfort
next winter when the supplies are not there for
housewives to buy.

Again, how comes it that agricultural

machinery to the value of nearly £7,000,000 was
exported last year, while the B: farmer has
to wait six months or longer for ew tractor

COUNIRY LIFE--MARCH 21,

he urgently needs for ploughing and cultivating
his land? It may be that some of the countries
to which we are sending agricultural machinery
will in due course send us some of the food
that they produce, but it is folly to swell the
export figures by sending out of the country
capital equipment that we need here for full
production.

The Government have not so far given the
farming community any clear idea of the extra
production that is wanted. Some cropping
targets have been mentioned for this year and
next year, but against the background of our
economic plight they fall far short of real needs.
The Government had not even made up their
minds by the nriddle of March whether the
grants for ploughing grass land should continue
after the end of the month, Yet the country
will be in greater need of maximum food
production during the next two years than at
any time during the war. The present Minister
of Agriculture carries a grave responsibility.

THE MIGRANT

UT of the sky Leaves that blow
This redwing fell, About the silence

Lonely on the snow Of the snow:
To die. A tiny lyre

2 Its broken stri:
Mote of music Folded pielribings
Was her sigh, : q
As her elfin breath The moth-quiet wings.
Went free,
And the white wind ° Opa oe
Tenderly Small things that

Closed hey eye.

Hold in your hand
The empty shell
That once a joyous
Soul served well;
Light as the rusty

WHITE PAPER OR SELECT COMMITTEE?

HE Government have grown fond of the

war-engendered practice of publishing the
reports of their advisers as White Papers, and
the White Paper promised on the subject of
Service Training Demands for Land will no
doubt be a somewhat béwdlerised edition of
a report recently prepared for the Cabinet by
the Interdepartmenta] Committee which has
been examining the subject since last November.
When this is published who is to have the
unpleasant task of deciding which areas of out-
standing beauty are to be spared completely,
and which are to suffer wholly or in part? The
Government’s idea appears to be that a series
of arbitrary decisions made by a committee of
the Cabinet shall be published and reviewed
piecemeal at a series of local public enquiries.
We have pointed out again and again the
unsatisfactory nature of such a proceeding.
How much better, as Sir Norman Birkett
suggests in a letter to The Times, to let all those
concerned draw up their order of choice and let
a joint select committee of both Houses—the
most impartial and representative tribunal
which can be found—resolve the contradictions
in the way that seems to them best, hearing
such evidence as they wish |

LOCATION OF MEMORIALS

PROTEST against a war memorial statue in
Westminster Abbey cloister, as likely to
“disturb the calm of a priceless possession,”
raises two wider questions which were not really
answered by the sculptor Mr, Gilbert Ledward’s
rviposte that, but for the men of the submarines
thus to be commemorated, there might have
been no cloister to preserve. The issues are:
Is there esthetic justification for excluding
contemporary (or any later) accretions from
notable ancient buildings? And where are such
contemporary memorials most appropriately to
be placed? The same issue arose recently over
a modern sculpture in Winchester Cathedral.
To establish a hard and fast principle is not
easy. It is wrong to sterilise old buildings, but
much depends on the quality of the building
and of the memorial. Any insertion in a notable
building should be related both visuaily and in
broad sentiment to its setting; but some build-
ings are such complete esthetic unities that any

In their tervor cower ?
Hers was a separate
Agony,

Her itfe

A timorous flower.

EILEEN A. SoPER.

1947

modern insertion is inappropriate—the R.A.F.
memorial in Henry VII's Chapel perhaps
infringes this principle. On the other hand, the
nave and transept of the Abbey, and, regarded
as a public passage, the cloister, are already so
rich in sentimental accretions—to the extent of
taking their wsthetic character from them
rather than from their structure—that the
insertion of a national memorial of related design
is not inappropriate. But, on the second and
broader question, it must be recognised not only
that such shrines as the Abbey are already
congested, but that the purpose of war memo-
tials loses something by their being dispersed
rather than concentrated, as, for instance, those
of the Scottish National War Memorial.

FOUNTAINS ABBEY

HE plan to restore Fountains Abbey has

wisely been dropped, at any rate for the
present, by the group of Roman Catholics who
sponsored it. They are to buy the site and
accompanying buildings and, short of rebuilding,
intend to carry out their project to bring back
“a great historic Abbey to the use of religion,”
but the general public will continue to have
access to the ruins. So far so good : no reason-
able person will object to such a compromise.
But the final step in allaying public uneasiness
would be to hand over the ruins to the skilled
guardianship of the Ministry of Works.

TIMBER NAMES

ECHNICAL names are a familiar object of

mystification or indignation ; people may
goggle at such deceitful terms as “‘ electric seal”
or “‘Baltic tiger’’ for the humble rabbit-skin,
and then they may goggle again at the precision
of some scientific label, such as Perdix perdix
perdix for the common partridge. The timber
trade would seem, according to the new British
Standards publication on timber nomenclature,
to be thoroughly tangled in both kinds of com-
plication. For example, the word “ cedar” has
somehow become associated with several
scented timbers of widely different kinds. The
‘Lebanon cedar is the original—and it is a true
cedar and therefore a “‘softwood.'' But the cedar
of our pencils comes mostly from a juniper (also
a “softwood ”’), while the cedar of cigar-boxes is
provided by Central American hardwood trees.
The cedars of shingles and the familiar wooden
houses is yet another non-cedrous species,
Thuya plicata—much nearer to a cypress than
a cedar and quite different from the Thuva of
antique veneers. Some true cypresses yield
cedar wood and the timber of Chamaecyparis
nootkatensis is “‘ yellow cedar."" Much the same
jolly confusion exists among the mahoganies and
the eucalyptus trees : from the latter a timber
merchant may saw an “oak,” and ‘‘ash,”’ or a
“white mahogany’-~and much else.

PUBLIC SNORING

RREQUENTERS of the public library at

Ealing have, it appears, complained of an
excess of noise which disturbs them in their
studies; the old ladies talk too much and the old
gentlemen snore too much. Doubtless both may
be annoying, but there seems to be a gradation;
those who cause a persistent murmur of conver-
sation are surely the more infuriating because
they do it of malice ‘and forethought and could
stop if they would, whereas the snorer is an
involuntary offender. In one of George Gissing's
books there is a tragical little story of a notice
Pl in the washing department attached to
ing room at the British Museum, to the
e at it must only be used ‘for casual
ablifions’. That was doubtless necessary, if
hard on some of the readers, but a reading room
is the very place for casual slumbers. The tran-
quil atmosphere and a suitable book are calcu-
lated to send anyone to sleep. Borrow found a
man snoring loudly in a meadow, who declared
that that meadow dombined with Wordsworth’'s
poetry had completely cured him of insomnia,
and a library can be equally beneficent.
However, at Ealing it must not be, and anyone
found guilty of that gentle music of the nose will
be ta on the shoulder by a hard-hearted
attendant and told not to break the peace.

is COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 2t,

A
CoUNTRYMAN’S
NOTES

By
Major C. S. JARVIS

S I write we have just started the ‘' general
thaw with warmer weather” that our
weather prophets so confidently pre-

dicted. Since it was responsible for half an inch
of ice on the poultry water this morning and the
“warmer weather” takes the form of a wicked
nor’-easter which causes the icicles on the trees
to jingle, I am so glad it is not my task in life to
be a weather prophet. I do like to give satis-
faction occasionally and to be told that I am
Tight.

Everybody and everything seem to be in
a filthy temper to-day: the milkman refused
to say his usual cheery good-morning ; the
gardener is banging down buckets and_ tools
with violence; the electric light engine will not
start; there are strange noises in the kitchen;
I only just restrained myself from kicking the
typewriter cover, which richly deserved it; and
the birds’ breakfast-table looks like the House
of Commons at question time. So far as I can
see not a single bird has managed to swallow
a mouthful without being knocked for six either
by one of his own species or by a member of
some other.

. . *
DO not think this intense ornithological
irritation is caused entirely by the weather;
it is probably due also to the unexpected
arrival of two gate-crashing mistle-thrushes
which the nor’-easter has blown in. As all those
who run birds’ breakfast-tables know, the one
fellow that no respectable birds’ club will
countenance for a moment is the mistle-thrush,
but unfortunately on account of his size even
a full hundred per cent. of black balls will not
exclude him. I must admit that my sympathies
are entirely with the old members, since I would
hate to breakfast at the same cover with this
blundering giant, who is so lacking in table and
other manners.
* . *
ec ARCH,” says the old adage, “comes in
like a lion and goes out likealamb.’’ This
year March came in like one of the notorious
man-eaters of Tsavo, and therefore by the law
of averages should go out in that atmosphere of
a gentle, balmy, primrose-dotted English spring
about which poets write so glibly when they are
living in Italy or Greece, and which I felt
certain I was always missing when I suffered
from a khamsin hot wind in Egypt, but which
Tam still waiting to experience.

Our newspapers, with the limited space
at their disposal in which to enumerate the
many evil effects gf this unprecedented cold
spell on coal production and factory work, tend
to overlook the extremely serious situation on
the farm. In the New Forest district of Hamp-
shire, owing to the continued wet weather of
November, December and early January, and
the heavy frosts ever since, no ploughing or
cultivation of any kind has been possible for
over four months; grazing in the meadows con-
sists only of dry frost-bitten grass without
nourishment; and not only have all prospects
of spring broccoli and spring cabbages vanished
but the planting of early potatocs and other
vegetables has been seriously delayed.

There are two types of weather expert
to-day—those who endeavour to look into the
future to predict what is coming to us, and those
who explore old records in the hope of discover-
ing evidence of years in the past that have been
as bad as this. The latter category have, I
imagine, packed up and gone on a holiday, for
there is no prospect of finding anywhere either
figures or script that will prove that anything
like the early months of 1947 has ever occurred

1947

WAITING FOR

previously, The conclusion I have come to is
that the Clerk of the Weather has very strong
political views and that, being a confirmed
Tory, he has by the summer of 1946 and the
early part of 1947 endeavoured to demonstrate
what he thinks of Socialism and nationalisation.

The only item one can put to the credit of
the weather in these parts is that, all the
accumulated farm-yard manure having been
carted to the fields a month ago, the farmers
with nothing else to do are engaged extensively
on hedging and ditching, which, owing to the
vicissitudes of war and shortage of labour, have
been neglected entirely for nearly seven years.
This may be useful work for the future well-being
of the farm, but as cultivation and sowing should
be in full swing at the present time, it is a bad
augury for the future grain supplies in this
country.

*
*

NLY when there is freshly fallen snow all
over the countryside is one able to
imitate the Beduin and sally forth in the
morning to read the news of the day from the
footprints in the clean newsprint provided by
Nature. The Beduin learns all that he requires
to know from the various marks in the sand at
the first light of dawn : the whereabouts of his
grazing camels; the location of game, if any; the
doings of his neighbours; and, what is most
important of ali, the movements of police
patrols. In the same way, owing to repeated
falis of snow, I have recently been able to obtain
quite a lot of information abont wild life con-
cerning which I was in doubt previously.

THE THAW

Among other things, I have discovered that
the rabbit is not quite extinct, as I had imagined,
but that there is at least one pair of wily old
survivors who, when the food shortage permits
of a little expansion in the coney world, will
rapidly re-populate the district. The rat situa-
tion was far worse than I had thought, for I
learnt that the rodents had established them-
selves in at least three strong points in the
vicinity of the poultry runs; however, owing to
the information I obtained, 1 was able to shaot
two as they came out at dusk to finish off any-
thing the poultry had left. A rat against a white
background of snow is very easily seen even
when the light has nearly gone, and after these
casualtics the haunts were apparently evacu-
ated, for no more tracks were seen, I think my
holding has a reputation for unhealthiness
among the local rat population.

* *
*

I: the wood behind the house there is a fox’
earth of vast dimehsions, with a front
entrance leading into a spacious hall hung with
feathers, scraps of fur and other sporting
trophies, a back door which is not quite so pre-
tentious and a most useful bolt-hole, which
comes to the surface in the midst of a rhododen-
dron clump. This earth is apparently what
estate agents would call a highly desirable resi-
dence, and the only time 1 have known it
unoccupied during the last ten years was when
the East Surrey Regiment camped in the wood
for six months, and most inconsiderately parked
their regimental transport in the undergrowth
on top of it. Immediately the battalion departed

90d

to take part in the North African landing, the
foxes returned and put the place in order again.

Examination of the freshly fallen snow
around the earth en one of the recent cold
mornings scems to show that there is a certain
amount of social night-life in the animal world
of which we are in ignorance. In addition tu a
visit from two foxes, a badger had gone into the
earth as far as the entrance hall, a rabbit also
had entered and had come away again, a stoat
had wandcred round the various exits, and at
least two of our semi-wild cats had been taking
an intelligent interest in the surroundings. As it
seems most unlikely that the foxes would gi®e a
dinner party in these days when hens are severely
rationed and rabbits nearly extinct, T can anly
conclude that the standard of honesty in the
animal world is as low as that in our own, and
that while the foxes were dining out, the other
denizens of the wood came round to see if there
was anything to be picked up during their
absence.

* a .

LABOUR M.P, has recently returned from

a three-day visit to the guerrilla forces that
are operating in the north of Greece, having
found that everything he saw and heard was
exactly what he had hoped it would be, ‘Ihe
guerrillas are excellent fellows with many
doctors, scientists and other highly-educated
men in their ranks, their discipline is excellent,
they are receiving no assistance from any
foreign power and they are oppressed by an
unpopular Government.

it has often occurred to me how very
much more accommodating in this respect is the
East-—Near, Middle and Far—than the rest of
the globe. If one goes to the East in search of

COUN!:RY LIFE—MARCH 21,

something, such as oil seepages in unlikely spots,
manganese outcrops on mountains, secret
societies dating back to the bad old Assassin
days, or confirmation of one’s preconceived
political views, one is never disappointed.

Almost the first man one meets after
stepping ashore is an interpreter, who by some
lucky chance is an expert on, or in close touch
with, whatever it is one is seeking, from buried
treasure to underground movements. The oil
man is taken to the oiliest patch of rock he has
ever seen; the author who wants to write up
secret societies attends a meeting of the veiled
leaders of the gang in a cellar or a cave; while
the optimistic enquirer who seeks to prove that
a feeling of warm comradeship exists between
the Jews and Arabs will be invited to attend a
convivial party where representatives of the two
races are singing the Hebrew and Arabic
versions of “Jolly Old Pals’ over glasses of
moustique.

The motto of the East is always “‘ Never
disappoint an enquirer.”’ In this respect there
is no doubt that the Occident is far behind the
Orient, and in this country we do nothing about
the production of evidence to show foreign
visitors that they are right in their opinions
beyond affording convincing proof that we do
not know how to make coffee.

. * *

S I expected, I received a great number of
letters from Country Lire readers in
response to a recent Note in which I described
an episode that proved that a dog possessed the
sixth sense. Among them is one that is so
tragic that at first I hesitated to tell the story,
but as it is unquestionably true and also of the

1947

greatest interest, not only to dog-lovers but also
to psychologists, I have changed my mind.

The dog in the sad story was a golden
Labrador, and she and her master, whom we will
call A, were on their way from London to shoot
the following day in the south of England. They
stopped for dinner at the house of a friend, B,
who lived at about the half-way mark, and the
Labrador also came in to take a meal. About
9 p.m., when A was about to start on the
remainder of the journey, the Labrador could
not be found anywhere. After a considerable
search she was discovered crouching beneath
B's bed in a room upstairs. Despite her adora-
tion of her master, and her normal objection to
being separated from him for a moment, she
refused to move when called, and was finally
dragged out by her collar. It was then necessary
to carry her downstairs, and when she reached
the car waiting outside nothing would induce
her to jump in, though, in common with most
dogs, she enjoyed motoring, and always coiled
up in her special corner immediately the door
was opened,

A was completely mystified by her
behaviour, since she had never acted in that
manner before. He said also that they had been
out shooting that morning, and that she was
perfectly fit in every way. The whole episode
was quite unaccountable, as normally the car
with the gun-case in the back evoked a display of
the usual enthusiasm that all shooting dogs
show when there is a prospect of sport in the near
future. Finally, the very reluctant Labrador
was lifted into the back seat and they started on
their journcy. Half an hour later the car over-
turned at a corner, and both A and his dog were
burned to death.

SOME GEORGIAN SHOP-FRONTS

i HAIN-TASTE,” as the current com-
mercial process of chromium-plated
fascia-lifting of shop-fronts has been

called, has already given the main streets of ,

most towns a garish monotony. The old indi-

viduality and good taste have to be,looked.forrin a

the side streets and villages. .We need not
regret the passing of thousands, of late 19th-
century horrors, but on the other hand the
number of Georgian fagades, already painfully
small, dwindles year by year. Some have

become part of the firm’s goodwill and are
secure. Fribourg and Treyer’s in the Haymarket
is an obvious instance, though the value of its
renown could not prevent Birch's shop-front in
Cornhill from finding its last resting-place in the
mausoleum at South Kensington some years

By PETER WALLIS

before the war. Beach’s chemist’s shop at Brid-
portsin Dorset, familiar to thousands of holiday-
makers, is well aware of the asset it holds in its
delightful early 19th-century Gothic bow win-
dows.

The keen eye can still find gems of this
quality in old country towns. Some may be a
little tarnished or may have lost a bit of their
setting, like the shop at Abbey Green in Bath
(Fig. 1), which must once have presented quite
a dignified appearance in its modest way. The
simple but graceful ironwork supporting the
window and covering the area window is an
unusual feature, most attractive when paired
on the other side, as it would originally have
been.

Georgian fagades are of all shapes, but not

of all sizes. The mammoth Georgian shop-front
does not exist, and almost certainly never did.
A sweet reasonableness governs them all. They
do not shout at the passer-by. Like Walt
Whitman’s animals, ‘‘they do not fret or
whine about their condition,’”’ but are content-
edly unassertive. If they must dic, they do it
gracefully, like faded old ladies, with quiet
regret and as slowly as possible. Sometimes the
original frames have gone, but as long as they
are replaced by new ones of similar design, this
is all that really matters.

One of the largest surviving must be the
grocer's shop at Bury St. Edmunds, Sufiolk,
(Fig. 2), which has a range of six windows divided
by the entrance door. This front must have been
added in the middle of George ITI’s reign, as

‘.

1.—No. 2, anaity GREEN, BATH, WITH ITS BOW-FRONTED WINDOWS, STILL WEARS AN AIR OF DIGNITY.
(Righ) 2—‘ONE OF THE LARGEST SURVIVING GEORGIAN FACADES MUST BE THE GROCER'S SHOP IN
BURY ST. EDMUNDS” WHICH HAS A RANGE OF SIX WINDOWS DIVIDED BY THE ENTRANCE’ DOOR

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 21,

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1947

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3 and 4.—THE MODEST DOUBLE FRONT OF THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST’S IN MARKET STREET, LICHFIELD, IS
MATCHED BY THAT OF THE SADDLER AND HARNESS MAKER’S SHOP IN THE SAME TOWN

the building is a gabled structure probably of
the Tudor period. Plain but elegant pilasters
flank these windows, whose slender glazing bars
form a series of miniature pointed arches within
the rounded major arch of each window head.
More modest is the double bow-windowed front
of the Chemist and Druggist at Lichfield
Staffordshire, (Fig. 3}, matched by the Saddler
and Harness Maker’s shop (Fig. 4). This has
a fanlight of stock design, whose excellence
is a testimony to the high level of taste in
Georgian mass-produced fittings. Pattern books
of the period, produced largely for the country
workman, are full of such good things. There is
something appropriate about these gracious
facades going hand-in-hand with trades such as
the saddler’s; they both belong to an age that is
almost gone. Frequently such shops seem to be
waiting to be taken over by an antique dealer
in scarch of premises with “‘ atmosphere.””’ When
this happens they lose their close contact with
the pulsing rhythm of the local workaday
world and become as much objets d'art as the

precious things they so courteously sheltez.
They resign themselves to relying on appear-
ances alone for their justification, a pathetic
end for a building.

East Anglia has kept a good many of its
early shop-fron owing largely to its rural
nature. At Cley, in Norfolk, occurs an excellent
example (Fig. 5). Here the entrance is reached
by a small flight of steps, which leads also to a
little raised balcony, running the whole length
of the front, from which one can either window-
gaze or mount one’s horse. At Necdham Market,
in Suffolk (that unknown county to 19 people
out of 20, and thereby—-dare one say it?—so
much the pleasanter), another double front sur-
vives (Fig. 6) of a shop combining the business
of grocer and upholsterer. Here the windc
gradually inch their way forward, encroaching
more and more on the pavement towards the
centre to meet the graceful columns of the
porch. In this discreet manner any suggestion
of flatness in the general effect is avoided.

There was, and possibly still is, a seme-

what similar but more elaborate example at
Boxford, also in Suffolk, with a fine hood about
25 ft. long resting on three columns at the edge
of the causeway. Just in the entrance was a
small permanent scat contemporary with the
rest of the woodwork friendly touch none
would think of nowadays. These broad windows
certainly give the shop-keeper's assistant plenty
to think about when it comes to cleaning them,
There are 44 panes in each of the Needham
Market examples.

An unorthodox effect is created at Stamford,
Lincolnshire (Fig. 7) by relegating the bow
window to the first floor so that it rests benignly
on the shoulders of the windows below, while
near by a charming front enhances the treasures
of our friend the antique dealer (Fig. 8). Queen
Street, in Bath, once one of the ci i
streets, preserves much of the appearance of a
Georgian shopping street (Fig. 10). Here one
sees the vista of small flat fronts, which give the

5.—A NOTABLE FEATURE OF AN EXCELLENT FACADE AT CLEY, NORFOLK, IS THE RAISED BALCONY FROM WHICH

ONE CAN EITHER WINDOW-GAZE OR MOUNT ONE'S HORSE.

Right) 6.—EACH OF THE WINDOWS OF THE COMBINED

GROCER’S AND UPHOLSTERER’S SHOP AT NEEDHAM MARKET, SUFFOLK, HAS ;-FORTY-FOUR PANES

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7.—AT A SHOP IN ST. MARY’S STREET, STAMFORD, A DELIGHTFULLY UNORT:
RELEGATING THE BOW WINDOW

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 21,

TO THE FIRST FLOOR.

1947

X EFFECT IS CREATED BY
(Middle) 8—THE ANTIQUE DEALER'S SHOP NEAR BY.

(Right) 9.—SOME OF THE OLD SHOP-FRONTS IN GRAPE LANE, WHITBY, “PRODUCE A CURIOUSLY UNDULATING

for taking up even a foot of room
in such a confined space, Individu-
ally there is, perhaps, not much to
be said for them. It is their neigh-
bourly sense of fitness that makes
them attractive as a group. ‘fhey
are modest and would not have it
otherwise.

Many interesting old shop-
fronts in a minor key are to be
found in the fascinating and historic
town of Whitby, on the Yorkshire
coast. Some of those in Grape Lane
(lig. 9) produce a curiously un-
dulating effect seen from one side.
At the other end of the county, at
Knaresborough (Fig. 11), is of
the most interesting spe
in daily use, the bow windows and
entrance oor each flanked by
pilasters deriving from Soane’s Bank
of England work, and @ pair of thin,
fluted columns thrown in to add to
the medley, Yet one cannot deny
the charm of the whole ensemble,
which represents metropolitan
elegance seen through the eyes of
a smal] and remote provincial town.

It was possible until fairly recently to get
an excellent idea af what an 18th-century
shopping street looked like at the height of its
prosperity by going to the Hull Museum, where

EFFECT SEEN FROM ONE SIDE”

10.—QUEEN STREET, BATH, PRESERVES MUCH OF THE
APPEARANCE OF A GEORGIAN SHOPPING STREET

many examples from all over the country were
sent to preserve them from destruction at the
hands of the house-breaker. Unfortunately,
this only made them an easy target for German

doing it gr:
Thank

illustrating

bombs, and little is left. One of
the most grievous losses at Hull
was the wonderful shop-front from
Lewes, in Sussex (Fig. 12). This had
been saved through a strenuous
local effort about 10 years ago,
when the rest of the building was
modernised. It was thought that
by this means it had been retained
for the delight of future gener-
ations, but alas! it was sent to its
doom.

The true flavour of the
Georgian era can be recognised in
the humble shop-front. There are

ttain overtones that are not
immediately apparent, but they
are there all the same by implic-
ation, if not by direct statement.
This kind of architecture obviously
cannot pretend to greatness. Rather
is it complementary to greatness,
content to leave the main theme
in the architectural symphony to
the cellos and horns of Houghton
and Holkham, Norfotk, playing its
own part discreetly on the piccolo, or
even, maybe, on the triangle, but
acefully and well.
s ave due to the National Buildings

Record for permission to publish the photographs

this arttcie.

11,—"METROPSLITAN ELEGANCE SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF A SMALL AND REMOTE PROVINCIAL TOWN” Is

EXEMPLIFIED IN A FACADE IN HIGH STREET, KNARESBOROUGH. (Righs) 12.—AMONG THE FINE SHOP-FRONTS SENT TO
HULL MUSEUM FOR SAFETY AND DESTROYED BY AIR ATTACK DURING THE WAR WAS ONE FROM LEWES, SUSSEX

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 21, 1947

INOFFENSIVE FLIES

GREAT deal is heard about the un-
pleasantness of flies. Everyone has read
of mosquitoes and malaria, of tsetse flies
and sleeping sickness, of houseflies and their
attendant list of vague, but sinister, infections.

This is an article about the “neutral”’ flies.
Regrettably, there are few flies which ‘can be
pointed out as really benevolent or useful to
mankind, but in Britain only about one species
of fly in forty bites mar or domestic animals or
is known to spread disease. For the most part
they live inconspicuously. Many of them are
striking in appearance or habits and all of them,
once their life-histories and relationships begin
to be known,’ provide most fascinating subjects
for study. Most insects have four wings. The
natural order Diptera, ‘or true flies, is
distinguished by using only the first
pair of wings for flight, and having the

ind pair reduced to knobbed organs
known as halteres or “‘ balancers.’’ This
definition excludes many insects com-
monly called flies, such as the various
kinds of ishing “‘flies,”” may-flies, stone-
flies; dragon-flies, or even ichneurmon
flies. Even so, over five thousand
species of true flies, about one-tenth
of the world total, are found in the
British Isles.

All true flies hatch as a larva,
which is a legless grub or maggot totally
different in appearance and habits from
the adult fly. The majority of fly
larve live on decaying animal or
vegetable matter and are found in
water, in the soil, in decaying vege-
tation or in rotting meat, while some
have become carnivorous and feed upon
other larva. As scavengers they play
an essential part in the natural cycie of
life, death and decay. Those flies which
come to notice as pests are often isolated
species which have transferred their
attention to field crops or garden plants,
or adults which have appeared suddenly
in large numbers and have swarmed
into a building.

The flies are divided into three
main groups, or sub-orders, the first
of which is called Nematocera the mem-
bers of which are distinguished by
having antenn or feelers of many seg-
ments often long and whip-like. These
are the most primitive, i.e, the least
highly evolved, flies, and include all the
midges and gnats with their fragile, softt
bodied, slenderly built forms and gawzy,
delicate wings. The family Tipulidae—
crane-flies or daddy-long-legs—belong
to this group ; their larve live in soil or
Totting wood, and some of the bigger
ones are well known tovfarmers and green-keepers
as leather-jackets, but the majority live harm-
lessly in the fields and hedgerows. Near
relatives are the Trichoceridae or winter-
Gnats——fragile ghostlike forms seen dancing
silently in the winter sunshine. St, Mark's
fly (Bibio marci), a shining black species
with powerful spurred legs and a big, spherical
head, gets its name through being on the
wing on, or soon after, St. Mark’s Day
{April 25).

The Mycetophilidae or “ fungus-gnats” are
slender—fragile flies with long and thread-like
antennz, and the numerous species of this
family are very difficult to distinguish, even
under the microscope. They breed in all kinds
of fungoid growth and decaying vegetation,
and any fragment of garden crops kept in
a closed jar will usually yield a number of
them.

The larve of the Cecidomytidae or “ gall-
midges“ bore into the tissue of plants which,
in response to the irritation, set up a hard
swelling or gall, When the plant affected is
a field or garden crop the fly becomes a pest.
In contrast, many larve of the family Chiro-
nomidae live in slow-flowing or stagnant water.
Blood-worms are larve of this family which
possess a red pigment (hemoglobin) in order to

By HAROLD OLDROYD

absorb oxygen from very foul water. Adult
Chironomidae are the familiar midges whose
evening dance near water is taken as a sign of
fine weather to'come. ‘

The’ second main group of fiies, the
Brachycera, includes the biggest and most
spectadilar species, the finest of which are only
fonnd ’in ‘the tropics. The Stratiomyiidae
(Fig. a), called soldier-fiies or ‘armoured flies’’
om account, of the spines they bear on the
thorax, are flower-feeders and ate found resting
on foliage. Their larve live in soil or water, and
are often carnivorous. The Bombyttidae, or bee-
flies (Figs. d and e) also feed on flowers, sometimes
inserting a long proboscis into the bloom.
Bombylius major (Fig. d) is a common visitor

BRITISH FLIES, ALL LIFE-SIZE.

a.—Soldier-fly (Stratiomys furcata); b.—Hover-fly (Volucella

bombylans) ; c.—Robber-fly (Asilus crabroniformis) ; d. and e.—

Bee-flies (Bombylius major and Bombylius discolor) ; f.—Robber-
fly (Laphria flava); g.—Tachinid fly (Gonia capitata)

to primroses in the south of England. - The
larve of bee-flies are of special interest
because some are parasitic on solitary bees
and wasps and others on grasshoppers and
locusts, beetles or moths.

Although relatively large and conspicuous
the twenty-seven British species of 4silidae or
robber-flies (Fig. c) are little noticed. It has
been said that they should properly be called
“ assassin-flies,”” since they lie in wait on a stick
or stone and chase other insects which fly

st.

a When the victim is overtaken it is instantly
engulfed in the powerful, bristly legs of the
robber-fly, which pierces its prey with a horny
proboscis and quickly sucks it until it is no
More than an empty shell. The Empididae or
“‘dance-flies"” have similarly predatory habits
and are further remarkable for their behaviour
when courting. In many species the male offers
prey to the female before pairing, though
sometimes this action is a mere formality in
which a seed or similar object is offered instead
of real food.

In the genus Hilara, those tiny - black
flies often seen i in clouds close to
the surface of ponds, the male possesses special
Siands in the legs from which he spins a ball of
silk to offer to his mate. Those small, often

tiny, metallic green or blue flies to be seen in
great numbers on leaves and grass in wet
hedges, overhanging ditches, or round the edges
of ponds belong to the family Dolickopodidae,
a rather neglected family that offers a fruitful
field of study.

The third great division of flies, the
Cyclorrhapha, includes the stoutly built, bristly
flies at the opposite end of the evolutionary
scale from the slender, fragile midges, The
Syrphidae or hover-flies are familiar to many
people and are favourites with amateur col-
lectors. Some are friends of the gardener, since
their larve eat the green-fiy on his roses, while
others, less popular, have larva which attack
bulbs. The drone-fly, Eristalis, has a rat-tailed
maggot equipped with a long
breathing tube that enables the
larva to exist in very foul and
stagnant water,

The housefly and bluebottle
also belong to this group, as do
the sheep-blow-fly, the warble-fly,
the sheep-nostril-flY and the deer
bot-fly. Closely related to these
are the Tachinidae (Fig. g), whose
larvae feed inside the larve of other
insects and destroy them. In
this way they are often directly
beneficial, and some species have
been specially bred to help in
controlling pests. Pollenia rudis,
the “cluster-fly,” is often seen in
houses and may be recognised by the
way it closes its wings, like a pair
of scissors. It is exceptional in that
its larva lives in an earthworm.
The Anthomyiidae include a number
of flies that superficially resemble
the true housefly (Musca domestica)
but may be distinguished from it
by the absence of the sharply angled
vein of the wing. Mostly they breed
in small accumulations of animal dung
in the fields.

Here, also, belong a host of small
or minute flies known as Muscidae
Acalpterae, the classification of which
is a matter of some difficulty. Certain
families are fairly easily recognised,
such as the Trypetidae, plant-breeding

species, which often have strongly
patterned wings. The Agromyzidae
include many leaf-mining species

whose larve make tunnels in the
leaves of trees and shrubs. Phytomysa
ilicis makes the branching tunnels so
often seen in leaves of the holly,
while Sepsis (family Sepsidae), a tiny
fly with a black spot on each wing,
may be found among the roots of
heather. The family Borboridae are recognised
by a swollen joint of the hind legs, and the
Drosophilidae are small plump fruit-flies,
often pale yellow in colour with red eyes.
Certain species of Drosophila are tropical in
origin, but have become thoroughly domesti-
cated and have spread wherever there are
kitchens and warm places in which the flies can
develop. In this group, too, are a number of
shore-living flies, the family Ephydridae and
some Coelopidae, Coelopa frigida is a very
bristly fly that breeds in seaweed and is some-
times an annoyance in coastal towns, showing
a curious liking for swarming into chemists’
shops. :

At the end of the list of flies come those
curious parasitic flies that live on mammals,
birds or bats, and in consequence have reduced.
or lost their powers of flight. This group are
known as Pupipara because they nourish the
young larve within the body until they
mature, so that when released the larva almost
immediately forms a pupa. These flies spend
their lives crawling about in fur or feather, and
sometimes stray into houses in the country.
Although parasitic and bloodsucking they
hardly rank as a major pest, and so may pro-
perly claim admittance to the company of
“neutral ” Ries,

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1947

THE MAD EARL AT HIGH LODGE

M“ people when they think of Blenheim
visualise what Lady Eleanor Smith
called “that golden Italian palace,
situated so majestically in greenly rolling
English countryside.’ They remember Capa-
bility Brown’s gargantuan lake and cascades,
and see, surveying it all from the 130-foot height
of his Doric coluinn, the bronze of Handsome
Jack Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, the
torch of victory in his raised right hand.

But there is another, wilder side to the
Park, the western side, where hollow oaks stand
deep in bracken and where, except for the
absence of deer, the landscape can have changed
little since John Wilmot, second
Earl of Rochester, lived there as
Comptroller of Woodstock Park
and (when he had offended Charies
II beyond even that most lenient
of monarchs’ forbearance) as exiled
tenant of the smail, remote and
tather formidable looking hunting-
box known as High Lodge. The
Lodge, now a Gothicised relic with
bricked-in windows and a machi-
colated tower, is not open to the
public. Part of it is lived in, and
in the rest there is little to see save
some decaying stags’ heads and
what remains of the four-poster
with its coarse and somehow
sinister yellow hangings, within
which the earl died at two in the
morning on July 26, 1680, at the
age of thirty-three.

It is pleasanter to walk beside
the large pond in which the north-
west corner of the Lodge is re-
flected, or to look from the front
of the building south-eastward
and, if one’s sight be keen enough,
make out the spires and domes of
Oxford some eight miles off. That
view in itself, one would say,
might makea man poet, and indeed
in one at least of Rochester's tamer
Passages one suspects a veiled
Teference to his lofty and lonely
place of banishment :

When, wearied with a world of

woe, :
To thy safe bosom I retive,
Where love, and peace, and truth
does flow,
May I contented there expire !

He is reported to have said
that each time he reached Brent-
ford on his way to London the
Devil entered into him and never
left him till he came to the country
again.

Rochester was country-born,
at Ditchley in Oxfordshire, in
April, 1647, and did so well at Burford
Grammar School that at the age of thirteen
he was. solemnly writing (not, it is suspected,
without assistance) to His Sacred Majesty On
His Restoration :

And though my youth, not patient yet to bear

The weight of arms, denies me to appear

In steel before you; yet, great Sir, approve

My manly wishes and move vigorous love.
At fourteen he took his M.A. at Wadham, and
having, as it were, exhausted Oxford, travelled
with a tutor in Italy and France, studying as he
went to such effect that while still in his ‘teens he
established a reputation, for what it was worth
in those days, as the greatest scholar among ail
the nobility. In a less licentious reign than
Charles II's he might well have maintained it.
As it was, ‘of a graceful and well shaped person,
tall and well made if not a little too slender;
exactly well bred; his conversation easy and
obliging, with a strange vivacity of thought and
vigour of expression’’ (vide Bishop Burnet), he
at once found favour at Court and, after serving
a while with the fleet and distinguishing himself
against the Dutch by “ uncommogjintrepidity,”
was made a Gentleman of the Bed-hamber and,

By DAVID GREEN

in time, Comptroller of Woodstock Park and
Keeper of the King’s Hawks.

So far, so good, But it was, as Dr. Burnet
dues not need to remind us, ‘a loose and lewd
age,"' and turning to Johnson's Lives we find that
as Rochester ‘excelled in that noisy and licen-
tious merfiment which wine incites, his com-
panions eagerly encouraged him in excess and
he willingly indulged in it till, as he confessed to
Dr. Burnet, he was for five years together con-
tinually drunk or so much inflamed by frequent
ebriety as in no instance to be master of him-
self.”

Certainiy it is obvious that on many an

JOHN WILMOT, SECOND EARL OF ROCHESTER. A painting
in the National Portrait Gallery, attributed to J. Huysmans |

occasion wine and a doubtful sense of humour
got the better of the earl’s otherwise excel-
lent intellect and good sense, It was amusing
enough to proffer one’s laurels to the monkey
and be painted so; to masquerade as a tinker at
Burford (he knocked the bottoms out of their
kettles but sent them new ones), or, in the
manner of Volpone, as a London mountebank;
and no doubt it diverted him to be known in
consequence as the mad Eari, Less funny
were the more vicious and violent of his pranks
(for instance the beating-up of Dryden in Covent
Garden) and the more schoolboyish of his
verses aimed at the King. As each new piece
of ribaldry made its circuitous way towards its
royal objective, bags would be packed and the
coach got ready in anticipation of yet another
enforced sixty-mile journey, over terrible roads,
to High Lodge for him who came to sign himself
‘your Country Acquaintance.” Yet again he
would, says Johnson, “retire into the country
and amuse himself with writing libels in which
he did not pretend to confine himself to truth.”

“On an average these dismissals from Court
are said to have occurred once a year. Yet exile
for a poet may not be all loss. ‘Since I came

into the country,” he wrote mockingly to his
friend Henry Savile, ‘“‘where, only, one can
think; for you at Court think not at all; or at
least, as if you were shut up in a Drum; as you
think of nothing but the Noise that is made
about you, I have made many Serious Reflec-
tions...” But in spite of his country
upbringing and his many sojourns on the wooded
hill, there is nothing to suggest that, as a man,
he was anfthing more rurally inclined than a
sophisticated courtier and one far from content
with long periods of exile in the midst of a deer
forest where it is likely that few of his kind took
the trouble to seek him out. He begs ‘ Dear
Harry” (Savile) “to contrive such
a; Crew together as may not be
asham’d of passing by Wood-
stock,” and implores him, in a
note with a distinctly up-to-date
flavour, to use his influence for
procuring him the best wine in
town.

Rochester, of course, was by
no means the only one of his circle
to find libel (except upon oneself)
amusing. It was enough for him
to leave the Court, whether in
disgrace or not, for Woodstock, to
set a multitude of tongues wagging,
go that everything he did, how-
ever patently blameless, became
cause far scandal among courtiers
incapable and unwishful of talking
and thinking anything else, One
such rumour spoke of his having
tun about Woodstock Park with
his friends, “naked and on the
Sabbath.”” Even Savile, one of
his few remaining friends, was a
little shocked and taxed him with
sit, “For the hideous Deportment
which you have heard of,”
Rochester answers (and one can
almost hear his sigh), “‘so much is
true, that we went into the River
somewhat late in the Year, and
hadra Frisk for forty yards in the
Meadow, to dry ourselves. I will
appeal to the King and the Duke,
if they had not done as much ;
nay, my Lord-Chancellor and the
Archbishops both, when they
were Schoolboys ?’’

In a love-letter, written at
about the same time, Rochester
commends himself to the lady as
“the wildest and most fantastical
odd Man alive.” Undoubtedly he
was at all times very much alive,
his short life packed with living,
for all Johnson’s famous dictum
when, referting to Burnet’s Some
Passages in the Life and Death of
the Earl \of Rochester, he remarked, ‘We
have a good death. There is not much life.’
But it w4s Johnson who “found in all his
works sprightliness and vigour and . . . tokens
of a mind which study might have carried to
excellence. The strongest effort of his Muse
is his poem upon Nothing.”

* a man of family (there were three
daughters and a son) Rochester was by no
means a pattern. His “most neglected wife,
Elizabeth Mallet, a Papist, was not only for
months at a time denied the company of her
lord but treated to that of his mother, a Puritan
of very determined mind, The letters from
Rochester to Elizabeth are brief and full of
excuses. Such of hers to him as survive read
pitifully. ‘I am confident you will find soe much
bussiness,” she writes from Adderbury (near Ban-
bury), where she seems to have spent most of
her time, “as will not allow you to come into the
country thearfore pray lay your commands upon
me what I am to doe and though it be to forgett
my children and the long hopes I have lived in
of seeing you, yet I will endeavour to obey you
or in the memory only torment my selfe without
giving you the trouble of putting you in mind

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that thear lives such a creature as your faithfull
humble

Rochester had been on his way to his wife’s
estate in Somerset when, while on horseback, he
‘was overcome by violent pain and forced to tum
back. Suffering from internal inflammation,
“with very great difficulty he endured a return
to the Ranger’s Lodge at Woodstock, by coach.”
It was April, 1680, but although he was
gravely ill there was still the same flippant
sprightliness in his letters to Henry Savile.
“Tt is a miraculous thing,” he remarks, “ when
a Man half in the Grave cannot leave off playing
the Fool and the Buffoon; but so it falls out
to my Comfort: for at this Moment I am in
a damn‘d Relapse brought on by a Feaver, the
Stone and some ten Diseases more, which have
deprived me of the Power of crawling, which I
happily enjoy’d some Days ago; and now I fear
I must fall, that it may be fulfilled which was
tong since written for Instruction in a good old
Ballad :

But he who lives not Wise and Sober
Falis with the Leaf still in October,
About which time, in all probability, there may
be a period added to the ridiculous being of
your humble Servant,
RocHEstER.”

His mind had, however, its serious side.
Much of the previous winter he had spent
closeted with his old friend Bishop Burnet, and,

HIGH LODGE, WOODSTOCK. PARK, THE MAD

although at that time discussion on religious
belief had failed to convince him, he had clearly
given much thought to it, both then and since.
It is not altogether surprising, then, that on
June 25, “with his own Hand, at Twelve at
Night,” the wretched earl wrote from High
Lodge his urgent and celebrated last fetter to
Burnet, “valuing Churchmen above all Men
in the World” and begging him to hurry to his
bedside forthwith.

Burnet answered the summons promptly,
and had the satisfaction of witnessing
Rachester’s deathbed confession and repentance
to which he (the bishop) attested the sincerity.
Rochester had, says Burnet, “run round the
whole circle of luxury.” a vivid phrase outshone
only by that of the great Doctor himself.
Rochester, says Johnson, “blazed out his youth
and his health in lavish voluptuousness till he
had exhausted the fund of life and reduced him-
self to a state of weakness and decay.”

In another old book we get a glimpse of the
two medical men in attendance, Shorter and
Radcliffe, ‘‘ walking together in Woodstock Park
and discoursing touching his Lordship’s con-
dition, which they agreed to be past remedy...
Dr. Shorter, fetching a very deep sigh, said,
“Well, I can do him nothing, but he has done
me a great deal.’’’ (The rake reformed had
turned evangelist.)

Both Countesses, wife aud mother, were at

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the bedside, and towards the end Rochester,
according to his confessor, ‘‘expressed so much
tenderness and kindness to his lady that as it
easily effaced the remembrance of everything
wherein he had been in fault formerly, so it drew
from her the most passionate care and concern
for him that was possible.”

Of the final scene St, Evremont records :

The continual Course of Drinking and a
perpetual Decay of his Spirits in Love and
Writing had entirely broken his Constitution
and brought him into a Consumption of which
after a lingering Sickness, he died at the Lodge
in Woodstock Park on the 26th of July, 1680,
at Two in the Morning, without any Pangs at
all, Nature being spent and all the Food of
Life quite gone, in the third and thirtieth
Year of his Age.

As the earl lay dving he directed that the
History of the Intrigues of the Court, which he
had been writing, should be burned, and this
was done. Some, including Horace Walpole,
have thought it a pity that the same fate was
not meted out to the whole of Rochester's works.
Others, Johnson among them, found some at
least promising, and as he says, ‘' What more can
be expected of a life spent in ostentatious con-
tempt of regularity and ended before the
abilities of many other men began to be
displayed ?"*

EABL’S OXFORDSHIRE RETREAT. Aytzawing by John Piper

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1—ENTERING THE HIGH STREET FROM THE WEST
OLD TOWNS RE-VISITED—XX

ASHWELL, HERTFORDSHIRE-—I

In Saxon times an important town, Ashwell is now a little-known but singularly perfect example of a big medieval village,
still largely surrounded by open fields and dominated by its magnificent 14th-century church

By CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY
see Ashwell has been included within the

county formed around the fortress of Hertford by
King Edward the Eider in 913, geographically it
belongs to Bedfordshire or Cambridgeshire which, together,
almost surround the peninsula of Hertfordshire containing
the parish. The reason for its attachment may have been
to include, as a defensible outpost to Hertford, the old fort
called Arbury, just above the Ash Well (Fig. 4), beside
which the East Saxons transferred the community; or it
may have been because the manor had been given by King
Egbert to the Abbots of Westminster-—-who remained its
lords till the Dissolution. However that may be, by the
time of the Norman Conquest Ashwell was the sixth town
in the county, with fourteen burgesses, a market, and four
’ annual fairs. This importance must have been due to its
position adjoining the Icknield Way, and as a market
centre for the rich, flat, agricultural land around, when the
range of transpert was small. These conditions persisted
into the 14th century, as is shown by the rebuilding of
the immense church at that time. But before this was
finished the community suffered very severely from the
Black Death (1350-60) which literally left marks. still
visible, and resulted in Ashwell’s pre-eminence (probably
already declining) passing to Baldock on one side and
Royston on the other—at intersections of the Icknield Way
with the North Road and Ermine Street respectively.
Ashwell never recovered its former importance, though the
natural fertility of its barley lands ensured sufficient pros-
perity for a group of substantial houses to be built in the
15th century, and for their inhabitants to form several
guilds, that of St. John the Baptist being the most
notable. Malting barley and making saltpetre from pigeon
droppings preserved the medieval condition of the town,
which the turnpikes and then the railways passed by, till
the close of the 19th century, neither increasing nor much
diminishing it, had not a disastrous fire destroyed nearly
half the houses in 1850, Though this calamity was such as
to justify public subscription for relief of the homeless, it
oe fortunately not to have destroyed any buildings
of note.
So it cumes about that Ashwell has scarcely changed
its essential appearance since 1500. Approached across

2.—THE GREAT TOWER. OF ASHWELL CHURCH
AND THE LYCH GATE

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH

the rolling plain from the north-west, the beautiful
tower and slender steeple are seen from afar rising
from a cluster of elms and roofs set among huge
unenclosed arable fields. Ashwell Street, a very
ancient road parallel to the Icknield Way, skirts the
village and runs for some miles in the direction of
Cambridge. The town plan consists of four east-
west streets connected by three north-south streets,
one of which, Mill Street, encircles the church. The
Saxon market-place has been encroached on by later
medieval houses, but the broad west half of High
Street (Fig. 11) and the upper part of Mill Street
(Figs. 5, 6) probably represent parts of it. The former
is lined by a succession of 15th-century or earlier
halthouses (Fig. 11). The eastern half of High
Street is narrower, the houses on its north side
{rebuilt after 1850) representing the encroachments
on the market-place. But on the south side, which
originally overlooked it, there is a timbered range
(Fig. 9) with remains of pargetted decoration dated
1681, which is probably St. John’s Guildhall. It has
recently been acquired by Mrs. John Beresford for
the restoration that its fine quality merits. It was
evidently at one time a single building, since the
dividing partitions are thin lath and plaster, and the
structural beams are continuous. One of the tene-
ments has long been known as the Guildhouse; in
1874 Andrew Bill, of a family of Ashwell drapers,
lawyers, and divines, surrendered to Nicolas West
“a house situated in the High Street called le Guild-
house or St. John’s House or le Brotherhood-house.”’
At the east end the street passes above the
springs that give Ashwell its name and form the
River Rhee, principal source of the Cam (Fig. 4).
In 1700 Chauncy, the county’s earliest historian, des-
cribed the thirty-three springs “that drain through
small veins out of a rock of stone shaded on every
side with tall ash-trees,” into a clear gravelly pool.
The scene is still the same, and can have changed little
in the 1,500 years since the Saxon settlers called
their village after the ash-shaded well. It must con-
stitute an almost unique instance in England of a
natural and botanical feature remaining essentially
as it was in the dawn of place-names; certainly few
English rivers have a more impressive or picturesque
source than the Cam. ‘‘ Ashwell Head Water.Cr
used to be a familiar old London cry.
The stream thus born
half encircles the church and
worked the mill to the north
of it that existed at Domes-
day, before flowing away
into Cambridgeshire. We,
however, will retrace our
steps to the great church,
looking more carefully at
some of the buildings on
the w
One aspect of the village
worth noting is its closely
nucleated lay-out, with the
church, vicarage, and Bury
(as the manor pis is so
frequently called in Hert-
fordshire) all adjoining and
surrounded by its fields; in
contrast to the scattered
type of village associated
with Celtic or forest origins,
and the ribbon growth of
Jater highway villages.
Nuclear arrangement is not
only characteristic of Saxon
settlement, but of ecclesias-
tical manors of which the
lord was non-resident, as in
this case; ie. the lord did
not build the church on his
demesne land at some dis-
tance from the village.
The quantity of medi-
eval domestic building, ex-
tending to whole groups,
has already been noted. It
is certainly rare to find, as

3.—ASHW ELL CHURCH,
B

THE REBUILDING OF WHICH WAS INTERRUPTED
THE BLACK DEATH (1350-60)

4.—THE ASH WELL, SOURCE OF THE RIVER RHEE, CHIERSOURCE OF THE CAM

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ein

teresa

6.—LOOKING DOWN MILL STREET

(Left) 5.—IN MILL STREET.

THE LYCH GATE BUILT ABOUT 1450

in Fig. 11, three yeomen’s hall-houses in a row and so comparatively little
altered. The series extends more or less continuously, with barns and yards
interpolated, to the west entrance to the village where the Chantry House, alias
the British Queen Inn, on the right of Fig. 1, is a 15th-century building with

7.— WRETCHED WILD DISTRACTED 1350!”

8—AN UNIQUE DELINEATION
BASE OF THE CHURCH

OLD ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL. GRAFFITI IN THE
ER CUT DURING THE BLACK DEATH, 1350-60

thatched roof and a stone two-light
window, The practice of covering the
timber construction with a plaster
skin, periodically coloured with lime-
wash, was regarded in the Middle
Ages as a protection against fire as
well as the weather. It is still tra-
ditional at Ashwell. Most of the old
houses gleam with white or cream
washes that also serve to enhance
their plastic texture in contrast to
the thatch or russet velvet of their
tiled roofs. In many cases the walls
are probably of cob or clay bats,
which is the material of numerous
thatched enclosure walls in the
village. An unusually gay butcher’s
shop is quite in harmony with this
clean, light, colour scheme (Fig. 12).
Mr. Dennis's fascia-board, with
scarlet and gold lettering, carries a
bull’s head proper illustrating ‘‘prime
ox beef,” and rests on a canopy
carrying tubs of topiary from which
hang baskets of red geraniums. When
the shutters are down and goodly
pink carcasses are seen hanging up
within the clean tiled surround, the
needs of commerce and the eye
seem to me both satisfied. If chain-
stores and other shops showed as
much cheerful imagination — and
some sense of what is appropriate to
varied positions— country towns
would be less vulgarly monotonous,

Leaving the colourful butcher we
turn to go down Mill Street—-referred
to in about 1300 as Le Mulnestreet
—and the full beauty of the church
tower begins to reveal itself (Fig. 2).
Its great height, 176 ft., accen-

- tuated by the needle-like spire (Sir

Edwin Lutyens compared the little
flying buttresses round it to dancing
angels), is further emphasised by the
sharp lines and set-off of the but-
tresses which give it a diminishing
silhouette, and by the tall lancets in
the upper half contrasting with the
solid base. It is one of the only
two Hertfordshire towers entirely

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9.—ST. JOHN’S GUILDHALL, HIGH STREET

encased in stone and was admirably restored
1928-30 by Mr. William Weir of the Society
for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.

The whoie church was rebuilt during
the course of the I4th century, when the
work was interrupted for perhaps a decade
by the Black Death, and completed in 1381.
Mr. Walter Millard has pointed out variations
of design suggesting the chronological pro-
gress of the work (Journal of R.LB.A., 3rd
Series, Vol. XIX, No. 1), and in the Muni-
ment Room of Westminster Abbey is a record
of payment by the Convent of £118 2s. 8d.
as their two-thirds share of the cost of com-
pleting the chancel in 1368, the other being
found by the parish (giving a total cost of the
work of roughly £5,316 at modern values).
The treatment of the upper stage of the
tower suggests that it also was completed
after an tterruption. But the lower stage,
connected with the nave by a iofty arch,
must have been’ built before the pestilence,
since its inner surface bears pathetic and
remarkabie graffiti referring to the plague.
The principal inscriptions, cut on the hard
clunch, are of two dates and are translated
from their Latin as follows :

1350! Wretched wild distracted 1350!

The dregs of the mob alone survive to

tell the tale.
Then just below : .
And in the year with a tempest
Maurus this year rages mightily to all
the world. 1361.

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The earlier of these cries from the past was
inscribed at the height of the plague, which
reduced the population of England from
perhaps four to some two and a half million,
and precipitated an economic revolution.
The second refers to the great gale of St.
Maur’s day, January 15, 1362, probably the
severest in English annals except for that of
November 26, 1703. It blew for a week from
the south and west, ‘there hardly remained
entire a house or tree in its course.”’ Among
specific records of the destruction caused was
that of the bell towers at Bury, Norwich,
and Austin Friars, London. No doubt
Ashwell also suffered. It was followed by ~
a very wet harvest.

Near by on the same wall is the deline-
ation, unique in English medieval art for its
realism, of old St. Paul's Cathedral (Fig. 8)—
often described as Westminster Abbey, but
identified by the spire. It shows the south
side and west end, with the tower of the
church of St. Gregory in the churchyard. There
is no clue to the authorship of these graffiti
The parish priest, or a refugee monk from
Westminster, may have inscribed the words;
but the representation of the cathedral can
only be the work of a trained mason who
knew St. Paul's intimately, and the con-
temporary method of setting out an archi-
tectural drawing. He may have been the
builder of the lower part of Ashwell Tower.
In this connection there has been pointed out
a resemblance with the lower and slightly

11.—THREE HALL-HOUSES, 15th CENTURY, IN HIGH STREET

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10.—THE SCHOOLMASTER’S HOUSE, c. 1680

earlier tower of Baldock Church, as though
the same mason had conceived both, having
possibly been trained on the fabric of St.
Paul’s. On one of the nave piers is a further
inscription stating that “this second church,”
Le, the rebuilding, was finished in 1381,

Except for north and south porches of
East Anglian stateliness, added in the next
century, the structure of the church is
essentially as it was left when the rebuilding
was finished. The great, light, interior was
very well restored by Sir Charles Nicholson
and has singularly little of post-renaissance
date in the way of monuments, since there
was nobody in the parish of the substance
to commission funerary marble. The main
benefactors of the church after its completion
were apparently the guilds of St. John the
Baptist and St. George, each of which had
chapels, One of the most remarkable wooden
adjuncts is the lych gate, probably built
in the 15th century.

A little farther down Mill Street is the
master’s house attached to the school founded
by Henry Colbron of Ashwell, who by his
will dated 1655 left for this purpose 21,000,
to be realised by the sale of his property,
to the Merchant Taylors Company. In fact
only £700 was then obtained, but the
Merchant Taylors executed the bequest and
still administer the Trust Fund, though
the school has come under the County
Council.

(Jo be continued)

12,—THE BUTCHER'S SHOP

1947

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 21,

POINT-TO-POINT PROBLEMS

Written and Illustrated by JOHN BOARD
"Tease we have enjoyed a remarkably good hunting

season, at least up to the time of the great frost, weowe ‘

to the tireless labours of the hunt staffs and the un-
stinted help given by the farmers, who are the backbone of
the sport, But it would be idie to suggest that many hunts
are free of financial care. Tven with reduced establish-
ments and with everything brought down to “utility”
level, as befits our present condition, the expense of keep-
ing hounds is higher than ever,

Before the war, for every pack kept on a princely
scale, there were dozens that were hard put to it to keep
going. Nowadays the problem is even more acute, for in
these days of savage taxation, subscriptions cannot be ex-
pected to keep pace with the cost of living, which is nearly
three times higher than in 1938. No means of raising funds
can be neglected, and one of the chief of these is (and has
been for many years) the annual point-to-point or Hunt
races. Moreover these fixtures give entertainment to the
countryside, attract outsiders and afford opportunity to
make some small return of hospitality to the farmers to
whom we owe so much.

Conditions have changed since our fathers’ time, and
to-day there exist two schools of thought : those who stand
for the “rigour of the game” in its extremest simplicity
of the genuine ‘ point-to-point,”’ and to whom the idea of
a prepared course is anathema, and those who maintain that
racing over a made and previously reconnoitred course is the
fairest test of horse and rider, For my part I have come to
the reluctant conclusion that the ‘‘moderns’’ have reason
on their side,

In the first place the selection of a sporting ‘‘natural”
course is impossible without giving an unfair
advantage to the man whose life has been
spent in the immediate neighbourhood.
Moreover, not many fences, wire apart, are
jumpable except at a few given points—many

MANY FENCES CAN BE JUMPED AT ONLY ONE PLACE

that this man of many cares should distract his
attention from the business of hunting his
hounds in order to note every horse brought out
for a day’s hunting.

tiate the obstacle correctly and in safety. When
racing this is impossible. No, on the whole let
us have our “made” courses and let the best
man win, even if the ‘‘eye for a country”’ is

at only one. Three horses, say, arrive at this
point almost simultaneously. Either all three
jump it together, in which case serious casualties
are inevitable to horse and rider, or else they
jump it in turn, and the last over finds himself
the best part of a furlong behind the first.
Again, a ‘natural’ course is more likely to
cause grief than a carefully made one, and there
is no sense in risking serious damage to a
valuable hunter. Out hunting there is time to
select your place, collect your mount and nego-

—~ JOHN Goad —

thereby discounted.

But, none the less, the point-to-point is
a hunt steeplechase, and is designed to test
Runters that have been fairly hunted throughout
the season, not horses that have “barely been
stripped for a trot within sight of the hounds,”
There is altogether too much seen of the “* point-
to-point'’ horse these days, an animal seldom
hunted fairly, or at all, by its owner, a race-
horse rather than a hunter. To be sure the onus
is on the Master, but it is unreasonable to expect

Accordingly, though all certificates are
given in the best of faith, many entries are
accepted for horses that can only be acknow-
ledged by courtesy as hunters. The acceptance
of such entries is unfair on everyone else and
a deterrent to the farmers in particular, most
of whom have an odd youngster or two that they
are anxious to race and perhaps, in the event of
a win, sell at a reasonable profit.

Nowadays it is the fashion to race in
colours, racing saddles and other appurtenances

POINT-TO-POINT RACES SHOULD BE RUN. @VER TYPICAL HUNTING COUNTRY -

COUNTRY LIFE—MARGH :21,

of the race-course; the bookmakers
we have always had with us, but
now the totalisator, too, is present,
I confess to a preference for the old
conditions of “ to be ridden in hunt-
ing dress,’’ though the colours are,
to be sure, helpful to the general
public and give perhaps an added
air of festivity to the gathering.
The tendency in these days is for
courses ‘‘all grass,"’ presumably to
conform more closely to Cheltenham
and Sandown. But considering that
point-to-points are for hunters, they
should be run over typical hunting
country (even if we have agreed
to have ‘‘made”’ fences), and there
are few counties of my acquaintance
in which a proportion of every run
of the season is not over plough.
On the whole this is a matter for
compromise between tradition and
expediency.

Admitting that one of the
prime objects is to make money, it
is clearly necessary to consider the
interests of the public—many of them
strangers to the country. A course that is all
visible to the spectators is extremely desirable
and should, I think, outweigh almost all other
considerations. Good parking accommodation
is another important matter, for there is nothing
more infuriating than parking your car in a bog
from which there is only the sienderest hope of
escaping without great difficulty at the end of
the day. The provision of a few tractors to this
end is a wise precaution, especially in a wet
season, and one to which organisers would do
well to pay attention,

The notion, often expressed, that racing
a horse renders it intemperate does not bear

STEEPLECHASER IS NOT EVERYONE'S
OUT HUNTING”

dispassionate examination. It is a fact that
a steeplechaser is not everyone's ride out hunt-
ing since, by reason of his education, he is liable
to ‘‘catch hold"’ and is not educated to the
normal behaviour of a hunter. Moreover,
excitability very often originates from the
memory of pain. Memory of a bad fall, undue
exhaustion, or extreme punishment will remain
with a horse for a lifetime. A hunter who has
suffered will certainly remember it, but it is
extremely unlikely that it will connect it with
anything but a. race-course. .

Every horse enjoys a gatlop at full speed
and benefits from it, and why a few fast gallops

1947

517

in Apri] should render a horse intem-
perate in the following November
and in quite different conditions I
fail to understand, In fact I am
quite certain that it will not,
especially if the horseistaken up from
grass reasonably early, given some
steady hacking in the late summer
and regularly taken out cub-hunting
later on. The horse, though one of
the Lord’s greatest fools in many
respects, possesses a certain amount
of intelligence, Keenness and nappi-
ness are separate qualities, Most
horses know by instinct whether or
not they are going out hunting. If
they are hunters by profession they
may—and probably will—exhibit
symptoms of excitement when first
taken out, but it is a pleasurable
excitement that svon subsides, for
they are (or should be) properly
educated and schooled. Sut that
does not betoken intemperateness.
Actually I am inclined to think that
it does a hunter good to run in a
point-to-point or two at the end of
a season, provided it is still sound and does not
meet with any unpleasant experience.

One of the great dangers to point-to-point
racing is the existence of a small tribe of pot-
hunters who travel from meeting to meeting
with animals that can only be called " hunters”
by courtesy. Most executives feel that they
cannot afford to refuse entries, but I am
certain that if they set their faces resolutely
against thase whose bona fides are questionable,
even at the expense of reduced fields, they
would reap their rewards within two seasons by
the increased local popularity and entries and
by far greater enjoyment all round.

RIDE

FLAT RACING PROSPECTS

T thg time of writing, flat racing prospects
A for 1947 are somewhat obscure owing to
the Government's desire to curtail mid-
week sporting events in the interests of national
production. It seems almost certain, however,
that the Derby, and perhaps the other classic
races and such events as the Cambridgeshire
and Cesarewitch handicaps, will be transferred
to week-ends,

After the severe restrictions imposed upon
racing during the war, the Jockey Club had
planned a comprehensive programme for the
coming season, with the dual object of main-
taining the high standard of British blaodstock
and of giving owners and others who had
supported the industry during its leap times the
opportunity to reap some reward for their
patient loyalty. Thus, although it may be
necessary to curtail mid-week racing in the
industrial areas, it is to be hoped that such
curtailments will not be too severe, since wide-
spread cuts would lead inevitably, not only to
hardship to those connected with the thorough-
bred industry, but to a general slump in the
value of bloodstock itself. Owners, deprived of
the chance to wir’races, would be compelled to
sell their horses, thereby causing a glut on the
market.

tne

At just about this time last year it seemed
as certain as anything can be in the racing world
that one of the sons of Hyperion which Mr.
Freer, the official handicapper, considered to
have been the best two-year-old colts of 1945
would win the Derby; while now it seems almost

ually certain that the winner willemanate from
the Beckhampton stable, presided over by Fred
Darling, who already has seven Derby winners
to his credit.

There was a surprising upset last year when
Precipitation’s son, Airborne, put paid to the
pretensions of all the Hyperions and others,
and there may be another one next June, if
Fred Darling's charge, Tudor Minstrel, is
beaten by a stable-companion.

This is not written on the assumption that
Tudor Minstrel will not stay the distance of the
course, Such an idea, widely promulgated by

some writers, is based on the fact that he is a
half-brother to Neola and Neolight, neither of
which could manage more than a mile in com-
fort, but is conveniently forgetful of the know-
ledge that both of these were by Nearco, a sire
whose stock are usually deficient in stamina.

Tudor Minstrel, on the other hand, is by
the Derby and substitute Gold Cup winner,
Owen Tudor, and so may be expected to have
inherited a good measure of stamina.

Bred and owned by Mr. J. A. Dewar, and
the probable mount of Gordon Richards, who
has yet to ride a Derby winner, Tudor Minstrel!
hasan unbeaten record and, on ancestry, seems
certain to stay a mile and a half. For all thut,
it is possible that his owner may find a better
one for Epsom in his present, second string,
Combat, which is by Big Game out of
Commotion, and which, like Tudor Minstrel,

is unbeaten.
ee

Looking back over Fred Darling’s remark-
able record as a trainer of Derby winners.
it will be seen that he has rarely, if ever, got
them to hand so early or given them so many
races in their juvenile days as he has these two
colts, but rather has kept them back and con-
tented himself with just one, or at most two,
outings to open them out.

This typical programme of his has been
carried out with His Majesty’s colt, Blue Train,
which was bred at, and is leased from, the
National Stud and in all probability will be
ridden by Carr. A grand horse in the making,
this chestnut colt claims the Derby winner,
Blue Peter, as his sire and is the first dpe of
the One Thousand Guineas, Oaks and St. Leger
winner, Sun Chariot, which was by Hyperion.
Not in the least likely to be ready for the
“Guineas,” a race that I believe holds little
fascination for the Beckhampton trainer, it is
probable that Blue Train will be just about right
when Epsom comes along and, just as Airborne
was the first grey colt to win the Derby since
Mahmond’s victory in 1936, may be the first first-

foal to score since the Aga Khan's. home-bred ,
colt, now the leading sire in America, earned.

a decisive triumph over Taj Akbar, Thanker-

ton and nineteen others, three years before the
war.

‘The classic races for colts are of more import-
ance and popular interest than those confined
to fillies and for these reasons, and because
this year it seems to me that the colts are im-
measurably superior to the fillies, I shall not
discuss the latter. Indeed, the only promising
filly that I have seen is Lord Portal's Salpax,
and I have already told her story in Country
Lure of January 24,

Of the older horses, the French-bred colt,
Souverain, and our own Airborne seem to dom-
inate the picture. The latter, a grey son of
the Ascot Gold Cup winner, Precipitation, by
easy victories in the Derby and St. Leger prpved
himself to be the best of the second-season
runners in this country, but was defeated by
Souverain, which had scored in the Prix Jean
Prat, the Grand Prix de Paris and the Prix Royal
Oak on the other side of the Channel, and by the
Irish Derby winner, Bright News, in the newly
established King George VI Stakes at Ascot,
last October.

One or other of these is practically certain
to be favourite for whichever Cup race it com-
petes, but danger to both may be forthcom-
ing from Sir Humphrey de Trafford’s Look
Ahead, Sir Richard Brooke’s Peterborough and
Mr. Stanhope Joel’s Murren.

All three of these were backward last season,
but Look Ahead gave evidence of Cup possibili-
ties when he readily won the Ascot Gold Vase,
and had been in steddy work throughout the
winter until the snow came; Peterborough,
whose owner has recently bought a big stud
in Ireland, was temporarily retired after his
race in the Derby and since then has been given
time to mature naturally by being hacked about
round Middleham, while Murren, as a son of the
French Derby and Grand Prix de Paris winner,
Mieuxce, may well be better as a four-year-old
than he was last season when, it will be remem-
bered, he ran Airborne to a length and a half in
the St. Leger. A genuine trio, they are worth

noting for all. their engagements.
Royston,

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COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 21,

1947

A COUNTRYWOMAN’S NOTES

HE English countrywoman landing in

Bombay for the first time gets an

unattractive and quite false impression of
Indian birds. Kites and crows grect her at every
turn, although grceting hardly describes the
behaviour of these ungracious creatures, even if
the persistent cawing of the crows puts one
a little in mind of an English rookery, while the
bird's grey neck and breast recall to a Scotsman
his native ‘“‘hoodie.”” Yet a walk in any of the
gardens on Malabar or Cumballa Hills, or along
the Willingdon Golf Course, can produce
a variety and enchantment of bird life, although
the song—as song is known in Lngland—is
lacking.

When walking across the fairway one may
see, almost beneath one's fect, a graceful fawn-
and-black bird digging in the grass for insects
with its long, curved beak, the head giving
oddly the impression of a small pick-axe.
Alarmed by one’s approach the bird flies off and
one end of the pick-axe opens into a decorative
fan-shaped crest. This is the hoopoe, known all
over India and sometimes seen in England.

Another charming small Indian bird is the
green bee-eater, with his emerald-grceen plumage
and two central tail-feathers stretching about
two inches beyond the others. In companies of
twenty and thirty these brilliant creatures
swoop and circle among the branches of tall
trees with a grace and- symmetry that are
a delight to the eye, while the air around glitters
green with the movement of their wings. If one
is really lucky one may find the nest of a tailor
bird, that olive-green, industrious little fellow,
holding his tail as cockily as does our Jenny
Wren. He stitches together the leaves of his
home with fibre and gossamer, and always
puts a knot at the end of the thread, to prevent
it coming undone.

* * *

ERTAINLY bird-watching can be one of the
pleasures of life in India, and one, above all,

that remains, however much the other amenities
of life may be threatened. On a small piece of
rocky ground at the end of a garden in the
middle of Bombay, overlooked by flats, a wild

By EILUNED LEWIS

peacock and his six wives go to roost every
evening. That is good enough to watch, but
perhaps nothing can equal the thrill of beholding
from the train window at sunrise, after a night
journey, seven or cight sumptuous peacocks
feeding in their glory on the fields of Rajputana,
or to surprise beside a solitary jheel a Sarus
crane, tall as a man and stately as a Lord Chief
Justice, in scarlet and grey.

-_ ¢ &

RAVELLING in India remains, in some

respects, very much the same as it was ten
or twenty years ago. Of course, there are the
network of civil air services, and air-conditioned
coaches on the mail trains, but the way up-
country does not always lie along these routes.
On the more roundabout lines the train dawdles
as of old, waiting at innumerable wayside
stations for other trains to pass it, while the fine,
reddish dust seeps through net and wooden
shutter, and the sweeper with his primitive
twig broom comes in next morning to stir it up
under the bearer’s eye. But where once the
guard on such a train was generally English he
is now almost certainly Indian.

At every station there is the same friendly,
interested crowd of those who are travelling,
those who are seeing off the travellers and
those (far more numerous) who have simply
come to look. In the chill wind of early morning
they are there, shivering a little in their cotton
clothes, wearing shawls, whole rugs even, on top
of their heads, for it is here the Indian seems to
feel the cold. They are still there in the hot
bright afternoon, crouching in front of the
water-carrier as he tips the water through the
brass spout into their cupped hands, and at
evening when sunset and smoke and dust are
woven together in a shimmering haze.

‘That shifting, kindly, many-coloured,
thoroughly unhygienic crowd is as changeless
as the rocks and dust and creeping ox-carts of
India. At any given moment a strip of railway
platform may contain a fierce-looking hill man
in a pink turban ; a graceful woman in her yellow

RETRIEVER TRAINING

is a scarcity of trained gun-dogs. Further,

a large number of professional trainers
seem to have gone out of business, which is not
surprising when the present-day difficulties of
keeping large kennels are considered. Be that
as it may, there is plenty of evidence of an
increasing demand for fully trained dogs by men
who have neither the leisure nor the aptitude
to train them. The majority of sportsmen do not
ask a great deal; they do not want specialist
animals for every phase of shooting; mostly the
demand is for good retrievers. And if one puts
the accent on good, these seem to be even
scarcer than other breeds.

* * *

O* of the minor consequences of the war

At the average shoot nowadays one seldom
sees a dog whose performance is even average.
No doubt the decline of walking up game and
the prevalence of driving whenever possible are
two excellent reasons for insistence on reliability
in retrievers. But we miss the initiative of the
game-finding powers of a pre-war generation.
We do not see so often the dog that knows
better than we ourselves whether a bird is a
runner or not. And thus, although he may
bring out our dead as prettily as you please, he
is not on his toes as was his grandsire. Yet
surely it is of major importance that we should
not have to urge a dog to his game, but rather
that training should be directed to developing
his instinctive hunting qualities, for then, even
if he err in impetuosity, he will fill a bag more
readily than his companion who never leaves
the straight and narrow path of respectability.

So it may be that as generation succeeds
generation, an increas: moo ascent to sub-
ordinate initiative to s ess may be elimin-
ating game-finding qualities in dogs to an even

greater extent than any breeding to show stan-
dards can do. For love of hunting can be stimu-
lated, but it cannot be created and, where it is
faint, systematic restraint may entirely eradi-
cate what little desire the dog possesses. Yet
a dog so trained may be styled a “perfect
retriever,” for nowadays that term too often
means merely that the animal described
possesses a soft mouth and can be entirely relied
upon not to run in. What it ought to mean,
surely, isa good deal more. It should mean that
a dog can mark a bird at a distance, and go to
it without being coaxed, the moment he is
allowed; he should be able to follow a runner
half a mile, if necessary, across land teeming
with ground game, and not come back empty-
mouthed so long as the bird keeps above ground.
Tf he is perfect he will not even change from the
wounded bird in quest of another, but this per-
haps is the kind of perfection that comes more
tarely, and only with age and working experi-
ence. Probably the nearest that most of us get
to the faultless retriever is the dog that combines
a soft mouth with reasonable steadiness and
quickness of recovery, and it is largely a matter
of individual opinion which of these qualities is
the more important. But at least it may be
urged that without the last-named attribute one
loses game, whereas a too-impuisive animal can
always be led.
* * *@

Slowness in a dog definitely spoils the day's
shooting, for the dog that runs indecisively here,

there and everywhere before getting on to his

line keeps a whole field of guns waiting. For
this reason, to teach quickness is surely a matter
of considerable importance. Speed in the
retriever is best taught by zunning away from
the puppy, but only affr it mastered

Saree and silver anklets with a child straddling
her hip, on its head a purple and gold bonnet,
an abbreviated shirt ending above its middle;
a Mohammedan in a fur hat and turned-up
slippers; priests, beggars and soldiers; a man
carrying two tin trunks on his head, one carrying
(apparently) a meat-safe and another carrying
an extra-large meat-safe, also on his head,
filled with fourteen different brass pots.

* *¢ #

ARE and love of her garden still plays

a large part in the life of a memsahib.
Comparison with gardens at home is difficult in
a country where there is no rain between
February and mid-July, where perennials, as
we know them, do not exist and where every
annual imaginable springs up and flourishes in
one ecstatic season lasting less than two months.

During the last few years there has been
difficulty in obtaining fresh seed from England
and Australia, so that some of the stock needs
replenishing, but most gardeners here keep their
own seed, and I have been told of zinnias grown
in four days during the monsoon. Roses, pruned
in October, have their first flowering at Christ-
mas and their second in February. ‘They smell
as sweet as English roses and are one of the
glories of the Northern Indian gardens. Violets,
perhaps, are here a trifie less exquisite than the
lids of Juno’s eyes,” but how they grow! And
how the high tide of colour brims to the full
during those weeks of February and early
March! The lawns of dhoop grass are fresh and
green, setting off to full advantage beds of phlox,
pansies and lupins, sweet peas, snapdragon and
plump purple stocks. Cannas and poinsettias
add to the riot of colour, and everywhere over
fence and hedge, and against the white walls of
the bungalows, are splashes of bougainvillea,
deep orange Bignonia venusta and flowering
peach blossom,

One is fain to capture and hold some of this
spendthrift wantoning of colour to cagry home
to England, where the great regiment of country-
women wait for the spring. It would be a sign
and a greeting, a symbol of recognition of their
courage and their long endurance.

By J. B. DROUGHT

thoroughly the art of bringing right up to hand.
if you try this method with a dog attempting
its first retrieve, the chances are you will tend to
snatch the object from him, with the result of
making him hard-mouthed. But apart from
speed in delivery, a high standard of smartness
in the field demands good marking when the fall
of the bird is seen by the dog, as well as a high
head when it is not. Thus, in learning, a young
dog should first be worked up-wind, because if
he is constantly sent down-wind he is certain to
get the habit of going about his business with
nose glued to the ground, and aithough many
people say this is correct, a dog that can, at any
time, hunt with a high head will be a quicker
retriever in the long run than one that cannot.
Anyway, the dog that knows how to go round
and get the wind will get to the ‘‘fall”’ of a bird
far quicker than one that hunts in circles while
all the time the scent is getting colder. The dis-
advantage of a purely line-hunting dog can be
seen when a winged bird creeps into a bush and
does not run at all; often such a dog will work
all round for a quarter of an hour without dis-
covering anything, and then, if you take him up
and put on a pointer or setter, either will stand
to the lost bird in a minute.
* * *.

Thus, the retriever taught to find the " fall”
of the game will, in nine cases out of ten,
outpoint the more plodding animal and save
appreciable time in a day’s shooting.

Again, dogs that will never give up hunting
until ordered can be made subservient to their
master’s will just as easily as those with less
enterprise. It is not necessary to stifle initiative
if sufficient patience is exercised in , but
it can easily be stifled if the dog is taught that
the be-all and end-all of his duty is never, under

COUNTRY LIFE— MARCH 21,

any circumstances, to move from his master’s
heel. Most dogs have plenty of brains, and even
if they are allowed reasonable latitude to use
them instead of being unduly restrained, I do
not think that all-round efficiency suffers. A dog
will break out occasionally, but as a rule there
is a very definite excuse; his action is probably
due to misunderstanding of his handler, and he
desists on command. But I think the reason
why some dogs show a consistency of behaviour
in this respect is either that they have been tco
much rushed in the earlier stages of their educa-
tion, or that their trainers have not fully satis-
fied themselves about their charges’ ability to
resist temptation before putting them to work
at a formal shoot.

It has to be remembered that the transition
from attendance on his master, shooting an odd
bird or so solus, to all the pomp and circum-
stance of a shuoting party, where there are many
guns, many dogs, and birds falling all over the
place, is a tremendous strain on a young dog’s
nerves. Obviously, to run in or chase is the
primal instinct of any sporting animal, where-
fore pent-up feelings, which can no longer be
restrained, find their natural expression in this
manner, unless the importance of rock-steacti-
ness in face of any and every temptation has
been thoroughly grounded beforehand.

_* &*

It is no exaggeration to say that the period
at which a puppy seems to have learnt his
lessons is the very one at which the trainer
should be most sceptical. Very often the wish
is father to the thought. A dog performs his

disappointed frame of mind, It ought to have

I been one of the week-ends to which T most
look forward in the golfing year, that on which
the Society plays against Cambridge on the
Saturday, and their old friends of the Royal
Worlington and Newmarket Club on the
Sunday. Alas! There came the final blizzard,
or at least I hope it is the final one, so that the
matches must be cancelled. To make the blow
harder 1 had heard on the telephone that in the
middle of the week the course was clear of
snow, and had begun to picture happily to
myself the row of fir-trees and the delicious
perils of the fifth green. And now that picture
has become one of a desolate waste of snow,
which in turn brings back to me a little scene

AM sitting down to write in a peevish and

from the long frost of 1895, and my first Lent?

term at Cambridge. Some of us had gone over
to Worlington in a hopeful spirit, and struggled
round with red balls. T suppose T must have
played rather fast and loose with thé rules as
to scraping snow away, or at least one of my
opponents thought so, for 1 can still hear his
exceeding bitter cry, as I was about te play
a brassy shot to the first hole, ‘The heggar’s
tee’d it!"
La * *

The snow was too thick this time even for
what Mr. George Glennie would have called
“‘monkey’s tricks.’ So here I am_ sitting
gloomily at home and reflecting that the
University match is at Rye on March 25 and
26, that it is my bounden duty to write a pro-
phetic article about it, and that I am singularly
ill-qualified to do so, having seen Cambridge
play but once and Oxferd not at all. So dis-
graceful a thing has never happened to me
hefore, I had been going to watch Oxford last
term only to be unavoidably prevented at the
last moment, but I had hoped to see both sides
more than once this term. Like Mr. Shinwell,
however, I had reckoned without the snow, and
so I remain in my scandalous state of ignorance.
The rival captains must likewise be in a state
of comparative ignorance about some of their
players, since they have had no recent, or any-
thing like recent, matches to guide them. The
Cambridge captain, Cooper, has, I observe,
chosen seven players, himself and four other
old blues who took part in last year's victory
at St. Annes, the new secretary, M. B. Schoifield,
and F. M. Lindbergh, who would have played
last year but for illness, His rival, Macdonald,

task satisfactorily on two or three occasions and
the trainer, instead of making assurance doubly
sure by the most searching tests, assumes that
his dog is word perfect before he has, in reality,
mastered his grammar.

The danger is that a fault so easily develops
into a habit, and in this instance a habit per-
ticularly difficult to eradicate. Many a retriever
puppy develops the tendency to chase because
of his trainer's anxiety not to curb too severely
his activities in the earlier stages of his career
lest the game-finding instinct should be unduly
checked. Most people naturally prefer a bold
dog to one without an atom of initiative, and one
of the most difficult phases of early training is to
hit the happy medium. Allowances must be
made for vouthful impetuosity. Too much
restraint is as bad as too little. Moreover, no
two men handle a dog alike, nor do different
dogs respond to the same kind of handling. The
only generalisation, perhaps, that can be made
is that if disobedience goes unpunished, most of
the good of a dog’s former training will be
undone. Wherefore the fault must be checked
instantly and at the place of its commission. It
is no use waiting for ten minutes or so and then
punishing an animal, for by that time he will
fail to connect cause and effect, Bring him back
to the exact spot and head on to the direction in
which he hoited, and first appeal to his better
feelings by such admonition as experience has
shown to be the most effective.

It must be remembered, however, that
the dog’s feelings may still be in a state of
such exuberance that a mild expression of dis-
appointment will not sink in. On the decisive-

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519

ness and promptness of your tone will depend
your ability to keep the dog from a similar course
of action the next time a tempting situation
arises. Whatever you do, don’t nag at the dog
~-a mistake that is commonly made; short and
sharp should be the reprimand in phrasing with
which the animal is fully acquainted.

If you have been able to arrest his rush
befure he has made a real bolt of it, and can
teduce him to a sense of shame by word of
mouth, the probability is that he will not dis-
grace himself again or, even if he does, it will be
a half-hearted effort which a rather sharper
admonition will nip in the bud. But if the dog
is really headstrong and persists in his unlawiul
course, even though he may retrieve the object,
you cannot afford to accept it. You may take
it and throw it away at once, thereby showing
him vour displeasure, and then there is nothing
for it but a taste of the whip. As before, punish
him at the place from which he ran in, taking
him thither under arrest, so to speak, and in
between the strokes of punishment read him
your admonition in no uncertain tone,

se ee

At the same time 1 suggest that the whip
be regarded as the symbol of punishment rather
than its instrament. Some dogs, of course, like
some schoolboys, require a wholesome whipping
to turn them from evil ways. But the majority
do not; and the temperament of the dog must
be taken into consideration before the lash is
applied, for you want rather to inspire the trans-
gressor with a sense of shame than to inflict
physical hurt for its own sake.

AT RYE = 4 Golf Commentary by BERNARD DARWIN

has chosen five players, and it really would be
absurd for me to try to make bricks with so small
an amount of straw of which I do not know the
quality.

1 have an Oxonian friend with whom I am
on terms somewhat similar to those attributed
to the Yorkshire and Lancashire elevens, who
are supposed to say ‘Good Morning’’ and
afterwards only ‘‘How’'s that?’" We bow
ceremoniously on the morning of the match
and after that exchange a few frigid common-
places. When I told him before Christmas that
I did not think Cambridge were as yet very

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bring
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7 wonder too,
Watching your eloquent fingers, watching vou;
And let the marvel pass.

Again: '' Now look,
Herve is the loveliest pattern of them all,’
And over your knee the silky book
Drops page by page like waier.
A stream the sun touches to animate colour,
Five, then a pool
Spread perfectly smooth and cool
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goed, he replied that they were at any rate
better than Oxford. As far as impartiality
permits I hope he is right, and with that I
must leave the prospects of this match.

As I cannot look forward I must indulge
in a little looking back at the University
matches that have been previously played at
Rye, none of them on the course as it is to-day,
but as it was when it skirted the now forbidden
road. There are four of them in ali, in 1911,
1914, 1923 and 1929, so that the turn of this
notable battlefield has certainly come round
‘again. In the first three of those years Oxford

won, and we of the other persuasion had come
to believe that some malign fate dogged our
footsteps there. Then in 1929 Cambridge won
by a handsome margin of four matches; the
slate had been washed clean and we start
afresh. A witness is sometimes allowed to look
at documents in order to “refresh his memory,”’
and I have been poring over the scores of these
matches to try to help myself remember, but
it is only rather insignificant bits and pieces
that come back.
* * *

Foursomes were only introduced after the
first war, and so the first two of the four matches
consisted simply of thirty-six hole singles. In
1911, when Oxford won by five matches to
three, by far the most illustrious player on
either side, judged by after events, was E. W. E.
Holderness of Corpus, who played third for
Oxford and won his match by 3 and 2; but that
ido not remember very clearly, nor even John
Ireland’s win at the last hole in the top match
by a single hole against J. F. Myles. In fact
everything else has been obliterated by the
historic shot played at the home hole by
Oxford's last man, H. R. Wakefield. Every-
thing hinged on that last match, which was all
square with one to play. Oxford were one up
on the whole reckoning, so that Marzetti must
win that hole to save his side. We, his sup-
porters, thought he would do so, when with
fiendish glee we saw Wakefield cut his second
over the green, so that his ball lay in nasty
country at the foot of-a steep, bumpy, sandy
hillside. Marzetti’s second was neither good
nor bad, he was perfectly safe, near the green;
he might get a four or he might get a five, and
a five, > we thought in our folly, might well
be good enough. And then Wakefield played
his shot, and exactly how he did it I did not
know, for he kept his own counsel. The ball
climbed up the hill and finished very nearly
dead. All was over, for he got his four and
won the hole and the match, and magnanimity
demands the admission that it was a great shot.

The year 1914 saw some fine golf by
W. F. C, McClure for Oxford and R. P. Hum-
phries, who annihilated Gordon Barry, for
Cambridge, but again it is a player farther down
the list who has made the more lasting impres-
sion on my memory. He is now the Rt. Hon.
Oliver Lyttelton, and incidentally, among his
minor distinctions, he is President of the
Rye Golf Chub. Then he was O. Lyttelton of

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Trinity who played last for Cambridge. He
had been, I think, three down at lunch, but
cheerful news came back from the direction of
the Coastguards’ houses that he was getting
the holes back, and sure enough when he holed
out at the ninth he was one up. If he could
win his side could probably win too, At this
most crucial moment his mother came down the
hill from the club to encourage him; he topped
his tee shot hard into the sandy road and he
did not win; neither did Cambridge. It is unfair
perhaps to judge by a single instance,
but I have had a distrust of parents ever
since.

Now for 1923, when Oxford won the four-
sames by one and the singles hy two. The two
now best known names are on the Cambridge

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 21,

side, Eustace Storey and Dale Bourn. Dale
played in the relatively humble position of
eighth and won his match. Storey, who led
the side, lost by 4 and 3 to Athole Murray, and
Murray played very good golf indeed; his win,
though unexpected, was entirely deserved. I
have visions of a rather tragical comedy in the
second single in which Goadby, for Cambridge,
going to the 16th, and having the hole and
almost the match in his pocket, made a trans-
cendant hook on to the little railway line with
catastrophic results. I also seem to see some
colossal hooks and slices too by R. H. Betting-
ton, who was then a very fine cricketer and
football player, but by no means such a good
golfer as he became afterwards.

Finally there is 1929, which being more

1947

modern history ought to be fresher in my mind,
but in fact is not, perhaps because there was
no such agony for me to endure. There played
in the last match that year E. Martin Emith,
and two years later he was amateur champion.
There was a great top match between Illing-
worth and Bradshaw with, unless I am grown
too dim, a particularly fine second by I[ling-
worth to the home hole; but the shot to that
hole which I seem to remember best was played
by an Oxford man who bombarded the club
house. It was only lately that he told me that
he had forgiven me for my comment on it.
However he won his match and so can afford
to be lenient. [et me assure him that my
deportment this year will be scrupulously
correct.

CORRESPONDENCE

THE BLIZZARD IN
SOUTH DEVON

1kR,~-[ venture to think that readers

in other parts of the country may be
interested to hear how we in South
Deven fared during the recent
blizzard. In my wildest dreams I
have never imagined anything like it,
and am pretty confident that very few
people have seen anything similar in
England heretofore.

On the last Tuesday and Wednes-
day of the blizzard South Devon
experienced a very heavy rainfall, so
heavy, indeed, that in certain parts
serious floods resulted. We also had
heavy rain, but as we are so high up
it was freezing when it fell. However,
it was a perfectly calm day; there
wasn't enough breeze to stir the
slightest twig. The result was devas-
tation and chaos.

The roads rapidly became im-
passable; the walls and roofs of houses
were sheets of ice, and telephone wires
were festooned with it. Fast outside
my window the wires that cross my
drive had icicles hanging from them
on an average at least every inch,

But it was upon the trees and
shrubs, and every form of vegetable
life that the most amazing effects were
seen, As there wasn't a breath of
wind when the rain fell, each drop
froze at once, and the next drop froze
on the top of it, and so it went on with
each branch and bough, and every
tiny twig was thickly encased in ice.
One twig drawn at random was broken
off and weighed. In its ice casing it
weighed 11 oz.; stripped of its casing
it was only 4 oz. The load, therefore,
that each tree and shrub had to bear
toust have been enormous.

About two o’clock on the Wednes-
day morning I awoke with a start
upon hearing a loud report; others
followed in rapid succession. All
night long, and far into the next day,
these reports went on, some louder and
some not so fierce; at intervals of
sometimes only two or three minutes,
but hardly ever more than a quarter of
an hour. It was great branches and
limbs being torn from the trees, and it
sounded like a severe bombardment.

The devastation has been tremen-
dous. In the glebo in front of my
house are some very fine trees; every
one of them now, except a noble ash,
has a circle of great boughs lying on
the ground around its trunk. In the
woods behind the house hardly a tree
has escaped; most of our flowering
shrubs are flat, and the rhocdudendrons
are in a sorry state. For the moment
the place looks as if it had been
bombed.

And yet, in spite of it all, we have
been treated to a scene of superlative
beauty, On the Thursday it was
a perfect cloudless morning, and the
sun rose ruby red over Blackdown.
When its glow first struck the tops of
the big trees, and later reached the
lower branches and the hedges, the
looked as if they were all ablaze wit
rubies. Then, as the sun gaimed in
power and lost its colour, the likeness
changed to glittering, sparkling
diamonds. But the most wonderfu
sight was when the sun got behind

what was left of the giant beech tree,
and the light shone through its
branches; they just danced with a
dazzling light that was almost blind-
ing. Trees, hedges, bushes, wire

netting and even the rough, coarse
grass were all supremely beautiful.
But the most wonderful experi-
ence of all was when I got into my car
to go to our shopping town a dozen
miles away. The main road for half

no use for firewood. I havea different
tale to tell. The big dead branches uf
an old acacia in my garden are being
taken off and sawn up, and they make
the best fires I have ever had, far
better than beech, chestnut, cherry, or
birch. They are very hard, but make
a hot and lasting fire, and are easy to
get going.

Cobbett swore by acacia, or
“ocust,” as he caled it, as the timber

A BULLOCK-DRAWN

TAXI IN THE

SHADE OF A BANYAN

TREE IN MADRAS
See letter; Milton and the Bunyan Tree.

a mile or so is along a Deven lane;
the hedges on either side caught the
full rays of the sun, and were almost
blinding in their radiance; the stonv
walls, out of which the hedges grow,
were dropping-wells of ice; and every-
thing shone like burnished silver, Hut
when I reached the well-known woods.
a mile or so along the road, | came
upon tho climax of all this amazing
scene. The hedges were there just the
Same: behind them a plantation of
yours trees, most of them silver

irches, and ash saplings, and in the
background tall oaks and heeches :
and each tried to outdo the other in
splendour. I simply had to stop the
car every 100 yards and look.

But, supremely beautiful as it was,
all the time there was an oppressive
feeling of the damage that had been
done—telephone poles lying at the
side of the road, snapped off five feel
above the ground, with the wire
lying in a tangled mass, twisted limbs
of trees lying in every direction, and
animals and birds suffering horrors.
Ice and snow can be more lovely than
anything clee in Nature, but they can be
hard and cruel, too.—T. H. Dixon
(Rev.), The Rectory, Manaton, South
Devon.

LOGS TO BURN
Srr,—-Much has been written about
logs for burning during this hard and
cruel winter, and by common consent
the acacia has been condemned as of

of the future, oblivious of the fact that
you can never get a straight bit of
wood, and that its hardness makes it

liable te “‘ring-shakes ’ (circular trans-
verse cracks) and “‘heurt-shakes"
{cracks radiating from the heart), so
that it is useless as timber. However,
J am glad to be able to restore its

character as fuel-—--ArtHUR Mac-

Donat, Tring, Hertfordshire.
THE WEARING OF YARKS

Six, -With reference to recent corres-
poudence about the farm: workers wear-
ing their trousers tied beneath (he
knees with pieces of string, this prac-
tice as I remember it was by no means
limited to agricultural districts of
England. Many men in the industrial
districts of the North wore these yarks,
some using pieces of string and others
thin leather straps, as my father did.

The practice wg fairly common
among men who Worked outdoors
until at least the outbreak of the 1914
war, but during and after the war
many men used puttees instead of
string or straps.---E. G. Bartow,
9, St. James's Road, Harpenden, Hert-
fordshirve.

PINK-FOOTED GOOSE IN
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Six,-—-On the morning of February 13
1 was surprised to see a pink-footed
goose in one of the fields here.
Although the ground was froxen hard,

it was not completely snow-covered,
and for more than an hour the bird
remained, finding what food it could
ona clear patch of grass.

‘The sight of wild geese in flight
is a rare event here in the middle of
England, and I have never before seen
or heard of anyone seeing geese of any
species feeding in a Vale of Aylesbury
meadow.

This one was, IT suppose, a
straggler from a Hock of pinkfeet
driven from their usual winter feeding-
grounds on the east coast by the
severe weather and depth of snow.--~
Coss, The Glebe Farm, Waddes-
, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.

\So far as we are aware there is no
previous record of a pink-footed goose
being seen in’ Buckinghamshire, The
bird observed by our correspondent
nay well have heen a straggler froin a
flock driven inland by the hard
weather.—-Ev.]

MILTON AND THE
BANYAN TREE

Str,~- Most people have heard of the
banyan tree of India, which drops
Toots frem its branches to take root
and form subsidiary trunks. 1 wonder
how many know that Milton aptiv
described it in Paradise Lost, thus s--
Branching so broad and long, that
tn the ground
The bended twigs take root, and
daughters grow
About the mather tree, a pillared
shade
High ovevarched,
walks betwven.
‘The specimen shown here formed
an imposing archway to the entrance
to the Officers’ Mess of RUA. Station,
‘Tanjore, Madras, housed in the former
residence of a judge. The bullock-
drawn vehicle in the foreground,
looking rather like a dog-kennel on
wheels, is the local equivalent of a
taxi. DoUG Las DIcKINS, 9, Lauibolle
Road, Hampstead, NWS,

CONTROL OF ROAD
TRANSPORT

Sir,—With reference to recent corres-
pondence in Country Jare about
limitations on the size of teams of
horses two hundred and more years
ago, the law prohibiting the use of
taure than six horses is 9 Annae. c. 23
(1710) and the reason for it (and
humbers of similar Acts) was this,

The expansion of trade in Tudor
times, and the growth of (especially)
London, led to ever-increasing traffic
on the reads, especially in the form of
heavy wagons, which seem to have
originated at the time of Queen Eliza-
beth. ‘There was no adequate legal
system for maintenance of the ruads,
and Parliament passed an endless
ftlumber of enactments, the object of
which was to restrict the loads that
might be put upon the road.

The iimit to the number of horses
(which was varied in different Acts)
was only one. Width of tyre, length
of axle, use of shafts or pole, animals
drawing in single or double line, kinds
of nail to be used for nailing on tyres,
variations as between summer and
winter, made a complex mass of

and echoing

regulations. The carter’s lot was
anything but ‘ pleasant and carefree."’

In 9 Annae. c. 23 and other Acts,
it is provided that half the fine for
infringements shal] go ‘‘to him that
shall discover and prosecute for any of
the said offences.” (It must be
remembered that there were then no
police to enforce the law.) Hence the
zeal of the inhabitants of Chippenham.
From this provision grew a flourishing
“racket,” for gangs grew up who
offered immunity from prosecution on
consideration of a quarterly payment,
in default of which the wagoners
would be prosecuted whether they
kept the law or not. This meant ruin
to a man whose business consisted in
continual travel, The incident quoted
by Major Jarvis may very well have
been an instance of gang warfare.—
R. H. Lanz (Rev.), Hollowdene,
Marlborough, Wiltshire.

[Several other readers have drawn
attention to instances of the complex
legislation enacted to control road
transport from Stuart times.—Ep.]

GRAMPUSES’ SUICIDE

PACT

Str,—The enclosed photograph is, I
think, unique. It represents part of

a school of about one hundred female
orcas, of grampuses, which appeared
on the beach at Mar del Plata, Argen-
tina, last October, mostly in a dying
condition. In spite of several attempts
to tow them out to sea they persisted
in returning to the beach. For some

A QUAINT DATE-STONE ABOVE
A COTTAGE AT HEPTONSTALL,
YORKSHIRE
See letter: Early Georgian Date-stone

days the mystery was unexplained,
and an old fisherman, who was born
here, told me that he had never seen
or heard of such a sight ‘before.
Several explanations, even atomic
bomb poisoning, were put forward.

Eventually the Government sent
down experts from Buenos Aires, who
made autopsies and discovered that
the creatures were females (several
young were, in fact. born on the
sands), that they were perfectly
healthy, but that the stomach and
intestines were empty; in fact, they
were dying of starvation.

An old volume solved the mystery,
4s it stated that “in the event of a
male orca being injured and likely to
die, he makes for the nearest coast
followed by his many wives, who, after
he is dead, commit suicide by starva-
tion, flinging themselves on the beach
to die.”

These orcas varied in size from
six to ten feet long. were of a dull
elephant-grey colour, and had a smail
fin on either side of the head and a
fin-like tail with a dash of bright red
on it. They had small oyes, a lar,
shark-like mouth and long sharp teeth.

I wonder if any of your readers has
ever witnessed a similar occurrence,
which I understand is remarkable,
inasmuch as these animals generally
Make for an isolated part of the coast
for this suicide pact. There had been
several violent storms with heavy seas
before their arrival.Litian Maran-
Stupson (Miss). Maer def Plata,
Avgentine Republic.

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 21,

1947

CHILD MINIATURES BY JAMES SMART, AN 18th-CENTURY
YORKSHIRE MINIATURIST
Ses letter: Pioneer in Child Miniatures

PIONEER IN CHILD
MINIATURES

Sir.—A friend of mine possesses a
couple of charming miniatures by
james Smart, who was born in the
ipon district of Yorkshire in 1701
and died in 1739. 1 enclose a photo-
graph of them, as Smart is claimed to
be the earliest English miniaturist to
specialise in child studies alone, and
these examples (circa 1733-38) are
representative of his work.

Enclosed in walnut frames 3 14 ins.
high, the portraits are those of a boy
and a girl, whose identity, however,
local investigations have so far failed
to reveal. A note on the back of one
frame states: ‘Belonging to the
ancestors of Mary |. Hale.”

Smart's father was a local land-
owner, it seems, and his gifted son
spent a lot of time painting the chil-
dren of neighbouring gentry. In the
diary of a certain Yorkshire family,
he was described as "' of gentile appear-
ance." The entry goes on to state that
the family were ‘very satisfied” with
his painting of their child.

I understand that Miss Fitz-
herbert is at present writing a book
on James Smart and his work, which
has hitherto received little notice.—
G. B. Woop, Leeds.

EARLY GEORGIAN
DATE-STONE

Srr,--I enclose a photograph of a
quaint stone over the doorway of
a cottage in a narrow street in the hill-
“top village of Heptonstall, near
Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. As will be
seen, the date is 1736, and the initial
of the surname F.

There are quite a number of the
Fielden family buried in the near-by
churchyard, and one wonders whether

the initials refer to that family; and
also whether there is any connection
with John Fielden. M.P.. of .Tod-
morden (1784-1849), as the latter place
is only four miles from Heptonstall,
and it is known that the Vieldens had
relatives in Heptonstall_—ARrNoLp
Jowett, 310, Hopwood Lane, Halifax,
Yorkshire.

A POSSESSIVE MONKEY
Srr,—Jacko, the monkey shown in
the accompanying photograph, was
found as a youngster by one of the
gun teams ofa Light A.A. Troop of the
53rd L.A, A. Regt., while the regiment
was fighting in North Africa. He was
adopted by the cook, and although we
were always rather doubtful of his
possible effect on the food served by
the cookhouse, no ill-effects ever
became apparent. Perhaps this was
because he had to undergo regular
bath nights !

In due course the regiment took
part in the Sicily and later the Italy
fighting. By this time Jacko was a
thoroughly battie-hardened veteran.
But perhaps he was lonely for the
company of someone more his own
size, and one day he returned from an
exercise bringing in his arms a small
rabbit, which was christened Peter,

These two became tremendously
friendly. Jacko would spend all day
playing with Peter, running round
with him, singing with him (or so it
seemed), and giving him boxing
lessons.

As Peter grew, so Jacko became
more and more zealous of his safety
and jealous of his companimnship.
Anyone attempting to take Peter to
pet him risked a scratching from
Jacke. He would leap about and
gesticulate and swear horribly in

PART OF A SCHOOL OF FEMALE GRAMPUSES ON THE
- BEACH AT MAR DEL PLATA, ARGENTINA

See letegr : Grampuses" Suicide Pact

521

Monkey chatter to show his dia+
approval.

This association lasted through-
out the Italian campaign. Peter
became fully grown, but Jacko was
still big enough to be able to enfold
him in his arms and protect him
against all comers, to their mutual
enjoyment.

Jacko did not greatly object to
gunfire, but when shells were around
he would hold on to his Peter so
that no harm should come to him.
Neither ever made the slightest effort
te escape.—Ian H. F. Finpiay, 66,
Manor Way, Beckenham, Kent.

THE LESSER WHITEBEAM
Sir,--May I be allowed tu comment
on your Editorial Note Spare that
Tree (February 7), which has just
been brought to my notice?

Lesser whitebeam (Pyrus minima
Ley =: Sorbus minima Hedl.) was
described by its discoverer, Augustine
Ley, as a distinct species and was also
recognised as such by Hedlund, the
monographer of the genus Sorbus. It
is not Swedish whitebeam (Pyres
intermedia}, although some writers
have chosen (as they have a perfect
right to do} to regard it as a variety
of that species; Swedish whitebeam is

THE MONKEY
ADOPTED BY AN ARMY UNIT
IN NORTH AFRICA DURING

JACKO,

THE WAR, KEEPS A_ TIGHT
HOLD ON PETER, THE RABBIT
HE BEFRIENDED
See letter; A Possessive Monkey

not a native British plant and lesser
whitebeam is.

Pyrus minima is confined as a
native plant to the limestone cliffs of
Liangattock; it has not su far been
recorded from any other locality in
Britain, or elsewhere. [ts natural
habit is not, as you imply, prostrate.
All the examples [ have seen grow out
from the cliff and assume the sort of
shape that any shrubby plant is likely
to take in such a situation. Several
other species of tree or shrub, includ-
ing two species of Pyrus related to
P. minima, grow on the same cliffs;
they all display their essential botani-
cal characters as well there as in a
botanic garden; they do not in the
least appear to have been growing on
a ‘starvation diet,’’ and there is no
reason tu suppose that Pyrus minima
is exceptional in ghat respect. No
evidence has in fact been brought
forward to show that lesser white-
beam is anything other than the
distinct taxonomic entity that Ley
thought it to be.

The limestone clifis of Tlan-
gattock are therefore the unique
habitat of one particular kind of
British plant, but this alone perhaps
would not entitle the area to be spared
from @esecration. What is far more
important is that the whole of the
vegetation of these cliffs (a plant com-
munity that has been very little

¢ studied ‘in Britain and never acde-

522

uately described) should remain
freely accessible to naturalists now
and for all time; for them it would and
should be one of the great attractions
of the proposed Breconshire National
Park to which you referred on the

same age.—H. A. Hyp, M.A,
#.LS., eeper of the Department of
Botany, National Museum of Wales,
Cardiff

A DISTINCT SPECIES

Srk,—It is unfortunate that in the same
issue that contains a Leading Article
in defance of National Parks (February
7), there should also appear a Note
decrying the action of the Member for
Brecon and Radnor and the War
Minister in taking steps to preserve

ONE OF A_ PAIR OF BUS
SHELTERS IN THE VILLAGE
OF STANNINGTON,
NORTHUMBERLAND
See letter; Bus Shelters in the Country

that interesting tree Sorbus (or Pyrus)
minima.

It is, ax you state, incorrect to
describe this tree as the smallest in
the world or to suggest that there is
only one tree on Mynydd Llangatwg,
but it is equally incorrect to suggest
that the special characters are brought
about by starvation or that the
tree is of prostrate habit in Nature.
While the “correct” botanical status
of any plant must be a matter of
opinion, there are probably few
botanists to-day who would regard the
tree as anything but a distinct species.
The name minima was probably
derived rather from the general
slenderness and the smail size of the
leaves and fruit than from the habit
of the tree (which reaches a height of
6 ft. or so in Nature) and these
characters as well as others are
retained under cultivation.

The interest of the tree is that it
is one of the few species of plant
restricted to the British Isles, being in
Nature confined to about two miles of
limestone cliff (Mynydd Llangatwg)
and one of the most distinct of these.
Sorbus intermedia is a Scandinavian and
North German tree and dees not occur
as a native tree in this country at all.

Botanists and all those who are
interested in our fiora must be
extremely gratified that steps have
been taken to preserve this tree on
its native cliffs. If it were to be
exterminated there, its preservation
in Kew Gardens or elsewhere would be
little compensation.~-EpMunD F.
Waresure (Dr.}, Lecturer in Botany,
Bedford Coliege for Women, University
of London, Regent's Park. N.W.1.

{The scientific staff at Kew have
now ruled that Pyrus (Sorbus) minima
is sufficiently distinct from P. inter-
media and from other species to entitle
it to specific rank. Not all botanists
will agree. Mr. W. J. Bean, though
recording it as having smaller leaves
and flowers, regarded it as a form of
intermedia.—ED.}

JACK STRAWS AND
SPILLIXINS

Sta,—In Country Lirg of January 31
a correspondent asks for what game
the set of men illustrated in her photo-
gtaph were used. They are jack
straws for playing a rough version of
the game of spillikins.

A set of jack straws consists of
some 40 to 50, or more, pieces each

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH at,

being numbered. The game is played
in the same way as spillikins, except
that the thumb and the finger are
generally used instead of the little
wooden or bone hooks in spillikins.
This use of the thumb and the finger
explains the large heads of straws in
comparison with those of spillikins.

The game is won by the player
whose straws total the highest number
of points; hence the numbers on your
correspondent'’s set.—A. WADE
(Major), Ash Cottage, Bentley, Hamp-
Shive.

BUS SHELTERS IN THE
COUNTRY

S1r,—With reference to recent corres-
pondence about village bus shelters,
you may care tosee the enclosed photo-
graph of one of a pair given by Lord
Ridley to a Northumberland village.
They stand facing each other across
the Great North Road at Stannington,
and were designed by Mr. Laurence
Whistler and made by Lord Ridley’s
estate workmen. R MCMXXXVII R
appears on the frieze about the
pilasters.—-A. B., London, W.2.

WAXWINGS IN LONDON

Six, -Apropos of the recent corres-
pondence about waxwings, T was sur-
prised to see tive of these birds in
a North I_ondon suburb an March 9.
They were taking berries from
berberis and mountain ash in front
gardens and appeared interested in
clusters of seeds hanginy from a labur-
num.—FRANK Baker, London, N.11.

IN SUFFOLK
Six,---Photographs of waxwings taken
in this country appear to be rare, so
you may like to publish the enclosed
picture of part of a flock of some 40
that visited this district for a period of
10 days or so at the end of January.
The birds were extremely tame in
the presence of human beings, and I
obtained the photograph by standing
below the cotoneaster that formed
their favourite feeding-place and
awaiting their return from the tops of

1947

some neighbouring elms,
to which they had flown
when disturbed by the
tumble of a passing
lorry. It was lovely
to see them dropping
like falling leaves,
especially in the rare
intervals of sunshine,
when the scarlet berries
and blue sky and flutter-
ing birds (pale grey-
brown with black faces,
white wing-bars and
yellow tips to their tail
feathers) made a charm-
ing picture.—D. G.
GARNETT, Fairfield
House, Leiston, Suffolk.

BEAUTY OF
SATINWOOD
Six,—I am sending you
a photograph of the
commode in the Lady
Lever Art Gallery re-
ferred to by Miss M.
Jourdain in her article,
The Age of Satinwood
Furniture, in a recent
issue of CouNTRY LIFE, in.
the hope that the beauty
of this fine piece of
furniture may be fully

appreciated.

The commode is in
the form of a chest,
opening at the ends with
side doors, each en-
closing four mahogany
drawers. The designs
employed in the veneer-
ing are executed in the best
manner, with satinwood as the
background throughout. The front is
decorated by a medallion of a lion
couchant on a green ground, from
which are suspended swags of drapery

and oak branches. Small rams-
headed altars, in brass, head the

pilasters, and the feet and base are also
moulded in the same metal. The
sides centre in finely executed female

masks in brass surrounded in a garland
.

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WAXWINGS STRIPPING A_ COTO-
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See letter: In Suffolk

of oak leaves and ucorns. The top is
exquisitely designed with inlays of
geometrical circles, palm branches tied
with a green ribbon and an inter-
lacement of husking, all being enclosed
in a double border of tulipwood.

The representation of satinwood
furniture in the Lady Lever Collection
is among the finest known, occupying
six complete rooms, in addition to the
numerous examples that are displayed
with period furniture dating from
Elizabethan times in other parts of
the Lady Lever Art Gallery,

The Lady Lever Art Gallery is
situated in the heart of Port Sunlight,
Cheshire, on the G.W. and L.MLS. joint
line from Chester to Birkenhead, the
nearest station being Bebington and
New Ferry, which is five minutes’
walk away. It is open each weekday
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sun-
days 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. From April to
September the closing hour is 6 p.m.—~
Sypsry Davison, Curator, The Lady
Lever ArtGallery,Port Sunlight Cheshire.

AT APSLEY FARM
Six,—In my description of Apsley
Farm House (November 15, 1946) I
attributed the bailifi’s house, built of
Canadian cedar, to Mr. A. R. Hanbury
Bateman, F.s1. I now understand
that the detailed design was due to
Mr. R. T. Perry, F.R.1.8.A., an archi-
tect with experience of this type of
construction to whom Mr. Bateman
specified the general character and
lay-out. The names of both these
gentlemen should therefore have been
associated with this excellent little
building..--CHRISTOPHER HussrEy, 13,
Cadogan Square, S.W.1.

DOES BRITAIN STILL
MAKE IT?

S1r,—--With reference to the statement,
in a recent letter, that one looks in
vain for a salt bucket among our
modern pottery, 1 have in my posses-
sion two bought in 1941 at the
Wetheriggs potteries near Penrith.
Their shape is much the same as
that of the Scottish salt bucket, but
the opening is slightly smaller and there
is a handle to hang them up by behind
the knob. The glaze is dark brown and
they are elaborately decorated with
cream pipe-slip clay; the word salt and
the date form part of these decorations.
The potteries are still working,
but I am not sure if they are producing
salt buckets at the present time.—
OAN A, INGILBY, Coleshouse, Ashrigg,
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NEW BOOKS

FOR NINE MONTHS ON
AN ICE-FLOE

Reviews by HOWARD SPRING

CERTAIN amount was heard
in 1937 and 1938 of the four
Russians who drifted on an

ice-flow from the North Pole, down the
eastern coast of Greenland, and were

taken off the flee when they were ©

roughly in the same latitude as the
northern tip of Sweden. They had
lived and made constant scientific

observations on the floe for 274 days”

and had drifted 1,324 miles. Now at
last the detailed account of the adven-
ture, written by the leader of the
expedition, Ivan Papanin, is published
by Hutchinson under the title Life
on an Icefloe (188.). Like many men
of action, Papanin is no writer. The
manner of the book is dull and full of
repetition, but the matter is heroic,
thrilling to any mind that can fill in
the author’s bleak outline.

Telling the story roughly, it was

be a difficulty, and, when they were
found, there would he exhausting
work in clearing the snow. As the
journey proceded, another pressing
danger was the tendency of the floe
to break up. This, of course, was why
the dumps were widely scattered. If
all had been together, and that part
of the flue had broken off and drifted
away, the men would have been
doomed. Ag it was, towards the end
when the inevitable break-up came,
a lot of stuff drifted away, but by intre-
pid work in rubber boats they were
able to save much. Finally a fissure
appeared under the very floor of their
living-tent, and they had to take refuge
in a flimsy tent of silk. The floc, when
they set out, was 3 huge island with
several airfields of ice on it. They
could walk for hours in any direction.
What, finally, the rescuing ice-breaker

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CHARLES KINGSLEY AND HIS IDEAS.

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this. The four men were landed at the
Pole from an aeroplane during the
Arctic summer. Papanin’s job was the
direction of the whole enterprise. His
eompanions were Shirshov, a marine
biologist, who spent most of his time
letting instruments down through a
hole in the ice and recording his find-
ings; Fedorov, who was in charge of
magnetic observations; and Krenkel,
the wireless operator. ‘There was also
a dog, named Merry. Krenkel's wire-
less station was the nerve-centre
of the operations. A windmill was set
up, and this charged the accumulators.
Thus the adventurers were in con-
stant touch with the outside world.
They could listen to concerts, pick up
the news, hear their wives speaking
to them at sessions specially arranged
for the purpose, and learn that all four
had been elected to the Russian
Parliament. They could transmit
too. Even if they had all perished,
much of what they achieved would
have been safe, for the results of the
scientific work were sent off regularly.
Also, they were able to send articles
to the Russian Press.

BITTER BLIZZARDS

Their living-tent was small but
well-thought-out. Two layers of eider-
down were put between two layers of
tarpaulin, strotched over a framework
of duralumin. There were bunks one
above another, as in a ship. The floor
was of inflated rubber, with three-ply
wood on top of that, and skins on top
of the three-ply. It sounds cosy, but
in the Arctic summer the floor was
often awash, and in winter blizzards
it was bitter. The men became expert
builders with snow-bricks, and made a
kitchen and other rooms in that way.

Concentrated food was plentiful,
but the dumps in which it (and much
else) was stored were a constant
anxiety. When blizzards blew up,
the whole geography of the floe would
alter. Even to find the dumps could

picked them up from was a piece of
ice measuring thirty metres by ten,
cracked in several places.

Papanin, as J say, records it all
unemotionally. He is .a master of
under-statement : ‘On the whole, it is
none too pleasant living on an ice-
floe in the Polar night." Only
rarely do we yet anything as vivid
as this : "In places we could not even
walk, but had to crawl We could
se¢ nothing ahead of us; driving wind
and snow burned our faces."

The amount of time put in on
hard work was prodigious. Sometimes
they would be at it for days on end
without sleep, yet one of the four
never turned into his bunk without
taking an hour’s lesson in Lnglish,
and Papanin made time to keep up the
political morale. ‘' Afterwards I gave
the lads a talk on the Stalin constitu-
tion, We spent a long time discussing
our Motherland, our victories, and the
struggle being waged against the
enemies of the people.” Read Spain”
for “the enemies of the people,’ and
you begin to feel something Eliza-
bethan about the whole adventure.
One smiles at Papanin’s constant
naive adulation of Stalin until one
recalls ‘‘ Gloriana,’”’ the ‘‘ Virgin Bess "’
and all the rest of it; and one sees that
men really do pnt more into their
endeavours when the spirit of their
time is incarnate in some legendary
human being.

CHARLES KINGSLEY

Mr. Guy Kendall's Charles Kingsley
and His Ideas {Hutchingon, 2!s.) is an
account of what the author calls “a
mid-Victorian parson and démodé
novelist.” The interest of the book
te me was in the light it threw upon
these two sides of Kingsley's make-up,
parson and novelist, moralist and
artist. Like many a writer before
and since, he never succeeded in
reconciling these two parts of his
equipment. Mr. Kendall says he

“detested the idea of a ‘ mere artist,’
like Vavasour in Two Years Ago, and
therefore, thrust and forced a moral
into each of his novels, never daring
to let it out of sight. He could not
trust each of the two values, the good
and the beautiful, to be its own
justification,” nor could he reach
Keats’s conclusion that these are not
two values but an indissoluble one.
A poet is always more likely than a
novelist to make this synthesis, for
the simple reason that a poet gets
behind human conduct to the springs
of human life, while the novelist, who
must use human conduct for his raw
material, is sharply aware of its
contradictions, its sinkers as well
as its floats, This, of course, was the
everlasting struggle that bedevilled
Tolstoy.
ACUTE DILEMMA

This book can be sincerely recom-
mended as a careful consideration
of a man caught in this dilemma at a
Moment of histery when the dilemma
was more than usually acute, because
Darwin's work tended to undermine
the faith of the thoughtless and to
throw men upon a merely material
explanation of all phenomena. In
this controversy, Kingsley was more
enlightened than many of his con-
temporaries. Indeed, he uttered a
memorable phrase which, if he had
clung to it in all its implications, would
have solved his own personal problem
once for all. To someone who “had
objected that the explanation of the
development of the mollusca given by
Darwin could not be orthodox,” he
answered : “My friend, God's ortho-
doxy is truth; if Darwin speaks the
truth he is orthodox.’’

Mr. Kendall thinks that of all
Kingley’s books The IWater Babies
and The Hlevoes are the two most
likely to survive. These books were
written by him especially for his own
children, and thus I find another piece
of evidence supporting my view that
all the great books for children were
written for a particular child or group
of children. But, for myself, I] would
give Westward Ho! some survival
value, too. It issaid to be vitiated by
its author's animus against Roman
Catholicism, 1 can say only that
when I read it as a boy none of that
was a hindrance to me. It did not
impinge upon my mind one way or
another; and J imagine that for a Jong
time to come boys will be fascinated
by the swing of the narrative, and the
heroic stature of the characters, and
the stirring setting of the whole
thing, both in time and place.

A QUEER NOVEL

Pierre Andrézel’s The Angelic
Avengers (Putnam, Is, 6d.) is one of
the qucerest novels 1 have come
upon for a long time, “The author,
the publishers tell us, ‘is described
as “a Frenchman born in Rouen and
educated at Oxford. This novel was
published in Copenhagen in 1944,
and ‘Pierre Andrézel has not been
heard of since the appearance of his
novel in Denmark.’

If every Drury Lane melodrama
you ever saw was rolled into one,
it would work up into some such book
as this. The setting is England and
France a hundred years ago. The
characters are a poor governess who
narrowly escapes a seducer, a wealthy
pampered girl whose father loses his
fortune overnight, a colossal negress
given to voodoo practices, an English
clergyman engaged in the white slave
traffic, the romantic inhabitants of a
French chateau, and so forth. The
action moves between scenes of splen-
dour and poverty, riotous enjoy-

COUNTRY LIFE--MARCH 21,

ment and deadly peril, both to life
and to that which the old novelists
told us was “dearer than life.’’

The strange thing is that the
whole book has an appeal that can-
not be gainsaid. “Laugh as you must
here and there not with but at the
characters, the author holds you and
compels you to read on to the end
No translator's name is given, so
presumably this is the author's version.
The English is sedate and quict, so
that we have an odd feeling of a prim
old maid retelling in her own fashion
a tale that would have delighted the
heart of George R. Sims.

o—

THE NEW MOSCOW

BOOK by representative Moscow

citizens, giving some account of
that side of modern city life which
engages their own energies and atten-
tion, is more likely to get a sympathe-
tic public in a country also in the
throes of urban reconstruction than
any amount of ideological polemics.
Moscow. Sketches on the Russian
Capital (Hutchinson, 15s.) has some
odd features in addition to the wording
of its title, but it is essentially readable
and the chapters of which it consists
are contributed hy men and women of
undoubted claim to describe both the
city in which they live and work and
the revolution which has taken place
within it in their time. Mr, Bak-
hushria, as historian, puts the ancient
capital in its racial and national
background. and is followed by Mr.
Chevinsher, the Chief City Architect,
by Mr. Timinagev, who writes of the
University and its work, by a Factory
Director, by the People's Artist of the
US.S.R., by a Moscow girl, by a
Deputy to the Supreme Soviet and
others.

Among these contributions one
of the most interesting is that of
Mr. Chevnisher, whose account of the
planning and rebuildiag of modern
Moscow makes fascinating Teading. It
would, of course, be much more
instructive had it been accompanied
by plans and photographs of buildings,
but unfortunately the book has no

s. The City Architect him-
as many others in
similar positions might if they were
equally candid, that he himself has
gradually lost sight of the wood in the
trees. For many years past he has
been engaged on the reconstruction of
the city and has become “so aceus-
tumed tu sccing the Moscow strects
in a state of continuous renewal,” that

*he has “‘somchow lost all sense of the

scale of the changes that have taken
place.” "Of course,” he continues,
“{ know exactly how many houses
have been built and how many main
thoroughfares have been constructed
during this period, but [ needed an
occasion [the compilation of this book]
which weuld force me to comprehend,
not only intellectually but emotion-
aily, the immense amount of work that
has been done.” E. LB.

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1947

FARMERS’ TALK

TRAIN journey in company
with three other farmers, taken
.A because road travelling was too
precarious, gave us I$ hours to talk
over the turn which agricultural policy
has taken with the Minister's state-
ment on produce prices for the coming
year. I found that each of us had ex-
pected more drastic measures to secure
increased production on the livestock
side, and were more disturbed than
relieved that Mr. Tom Williams is prov-
ing such an easy-going Minister at a
time when most people who arc likely to
know consider that Britain is running
into a food crisis almost as serious as
the coal crisis. Coal and food, both
products of the soil, must be the main-
stays of the simpler economy that has
been forced on the country. We all
agreed about that and, knowing the
untapped potentialities of the soil
above ground, we wanted todo morein
our own ways. Pious hopes of in-
creased output, particularly of milk,
eggs and bacon, have been expressed
by the Minister and endorsed in
amiable terms by the headquarters of
the N.F.U., who pledge farmers to do
all that they can to produce more and
save dollars. But neither party seems
yet to have got down to the realities of
the position, Farmers in the country
have been given no strong lead such as
they were accustomed to get in the war
years when food supplies were critical,
There may be some circulars from 55,
Whitehall percolating thruugh to the
county agricultural executive commit-
tees which eventually will reach the
ears of district committee members,
who, if they are not too busy on their
own farms, will visit their neighbours
and see whether they can do a little
more. All this is too timid and tao
slow in producing results.

Barley for Pig Feeding

NE of my fellow travellers declared

roundly that he could produce
100 bacon pigs in 1948, and 300 in 1949
if he could count on keeping some of
this year's batley for pig feeding. He
had kept 4 sows as a nucleus from
which to build up his pig numbers, but,
he asked, what would be the sense of
expanding until he knew that he could
feed more pigs if he reared them? The
promise that farmers will be allowed
to keep a significant proportion of their
1948 barley for pig feeding was aito-
gether too dim to set him going now.
This farmer also kept poultry, up to
600 he said, before the war and if he
could count on having wheat for them
he would immediately start expanding
again, The hen houses are standing
idle and his daughter is back from the
A.T.S. There must be many thousands
of farms like this that could, allowed
the facilities now, increase the con-
sumers’ egg and bacon rations by next
year,

Cake for Calves

HE other two travellers were both

milk men. Their farms on heavy
ground are not suited to any more till-
age than they must do in these days to
feed their cows. They both make silage,
one I suspect more successfully than
the other, and this helps out the cake
ration when the kale is finished at
Christmas, They talked appreciatively
of the Milk Marketing Board's move to
start the co-operative drying of grass
which is beginning now in the Thorn-
bury district of Gloucestershire, Dried
grass, they thought, would bea godsend
and cheap at £15a ton. How soon can
we come in on this? they asked, Could
they grow some linseed, selling it at
£40 a ton to the Ministry of Food and
get back the linseed cake? That, they
thought, would be excellent for the
calves which do not nowadays get
the best of feed. Could they buy the
right kind of linseed for sowing next
month? One of them used to rear
some steer calves and sell therm as beef
stores. If the price were right and be

could get some linseed cake to mix with
oats he would rear 8 ar 10 steer calves
straightaway.

No Compiaints Over Prices

ONE of the purty had any serivus

complaints about the new scale
of prices. They wanted the means to
take advantage of them. One particu-
larly welcomed the drop in the acreage
payment on potatoes and the prospect
of being excused next year his war-
time quota of 3 acres. He had found
potato-growing a laborious job that
does not pay. He has not any potato-
lifting machinery and last autumn the
rain came before he got to his potatoes
and they stayed in the ground until
just before Christmas. He spoke for
many others who welcome the idea
that potato-growing will be left to those
best able to tackle it economically. If
more potato lifters could be got (and
there are now some useful machines)
some farmers who can grow 10 to 20
acres would gladly grow 50 or 100
acres and relieve the farmers of the
unnatural potato districts from their
present obligations. So our railway
talk ran until we reached our destina-
tions. Each in his own way wanted to
do more and each felt frustrated.

Lembing Losses

N Wales and the North losses among

breeding ewes have been serious and
the lamb crop must be fewer by many
thousands. This is a disaster for many
hill farmers who, despite hill sheep
subsidies, have not been doing too well,
and it is a grave matter, too, for the
many lowland farmers who rely on the
hill flocks for the regular replacement
in their breeding flocks. I bought 50
Half-Bred ewe lambs last September
which cost me 109s, at my home
station. (Half-Bred lambs are, I should
perhaps explain, the progeny of the
Border Leicester ram and the Cheviot
ewe bred in the Border Country in the
north of Scotland.) I thought the price
stifl enough, as these sheep will not
carry lambs until next season, but now
they must be worth considerably more,
They have wintered well, and 7 am
glad that I did not try to breed from
them in the first year. The snow and
hard conditions have been bad enough
for mature ewes due to lamb in March
and early April. 1 know that forward
Half-Bred lambs can be bred from in
their first year and I have had fair
results myself in an open season when
they could be done well through the
winter and there was an early bite of
grass in the late spring, but this was
not the year to force the pace of Nature.

Patching Corn Crops
S the fields begin to show the
earth again, farmers are looking
anxiously at the autumn-sown corn to
sec how the plants survived this
grimmest of winters. Unless the crop
has perished altogether, a top dressing
of nitrogen may suffice to restore
vigour, and [ shall give my crops
a fortnight to recover before attempt-
ing to patch the wheat with barley,
which is never a very satisfactory job.

Chicory in Pastures

HE pioneers in making grass leys

believed in using chicory in the
mixture. They liked this plant because
of its deep roots, which tap sources of
fertility beyond the reach of most herb-
age plants. The leaves of chicory
remain succulent and green in a dry
time and this also is a useful quality.
The trouble about including chicory
in a ley mixture is that the plant is so
succulent that it takes much drying
when a hay crop is being made. But
even so I like toinclude a little chicory
-~abcut 4 Ib. to the acre. Whether or
not this is sound commercial practice,
the blue flowers please me and I like to
think of the subsoil being opened up
by the big tap roots.

Crntrnnatus.

THE ESTATE MARKET

FARM PRICES AND
OFFERS

R, LESLIE H. G. WAITE, of
M the Yeovil office of Messrs.
Jackson-Stops and Staff, had
a large company at Newton Abbot,
notwithstanding the weather, when he
offered the South Devon dairy farm,
known as Bickham, Diptford, South
Brent. After brisk bidding the ham-
mer fell, to an Essex buyer, at £7,500,
Kor £18,250 -Mr. Alfred J.
Burrows, on behalf of Mr. Harold
‘Tuke’s executors, sold Mill Street
Farm, on the Benenden-Hawkhurst
road, five miles from Cranbrook,
Kent. The holding of 118 acres
includes 32 acres of hop garden (basic
quota 399 ewt.), 13 acres of bush fruit
and plum and pear trees now well
matured, and 14 acres of chestnut,
which has made as much as £60 an
acre. The farm-house contains massive
ald oak beams, joists and floors, and
the modern hop-vast, lighted by elec-
tricity, has an oil-fed drying plant.
There are 74 nicely fitted huts, and a
couple of modern cottages. The wire-
work and hop-poles, the timber and
everything, were included, so that the
farm passes at once, free of any
tenant-right valuation,

FUTURE OF A FAMOUS
° TRING FARM

HE present owner of the Home
Farm, Tring, Hertfordshire (114

acres) is Flight-Licutenant R. J.
Kilby, breeder of the Kytes Shire
Stud, He intends to live at Whaddon
Hall, near Bletchley, Buckingham-
shire, and has instructed Messrs.

Knight, Frank and Rutley to sell the
farm.

The second Lord Kothschild
made the farm famous for its prize-
winning cattle and horses. The build-
ings rank, among the finest in the
country, and the “milking parlour’ is
said to be the only one of its kind. The
Shire and Hunter stabling is lavishly
fitted. Much of the farm-heuse is
panelled in oak that was originally
ordered by Charles LI for Nell Gwyn.

IN THE BRONTE GOUNTRY
HE Atkinson Jowett estate, in and
near Bradford, Yorkshire, some
thousands of acres, including typical
Bronté country at Oakworth, will
be submitted in 60 lots, next month at
Bradford, by Messrs. Jackson-Stops
and Staff's Leeds office. Bilton Hall,
Yorkshire, the late Mr. Atkinson
Jowett’s Elizabethan house and 30
acres, overluoking the Nidd, will come
under the hammer at Harrogate.

Other large areas in Yorkshire are
in the hands of Messrs. John D. Wood
and Co., among them Cowiam estate,
four farms, two miles from Sledmere;
and 360 acres, a couple of miles from
Filey. The total rents of the two pro-
perties are about £1,200 a year.

Captain and Mrs. Derek Fitz-
gerald have decided to sell the
Georgian mansion and 2,600 acres,
Branches Park, Newmarket, Suffolk.
Many of the rooms are panelled in
walnut. The joint agents are Messrs,
Dilley, Theakston and Beardmore,
with Messrs. Turner, Lord and Ransom.
The estate includes 14 farms and other
holdings. The park proper is of 200
acres, and there are 150 acres of
coverts.

WHITEKNIGHTS FOR
UNIVERSITY USE
Si HENRY J. d’AVIGDOR-
GOLDSMID, for whom Messrs.
Rees-Reynolds and Hunt acted, has
accepted an offer of over £100,000 for

Whit ‘hts, near Reading, Berk-
mene 808 acres, which will

even-
tually used for Reading University.
The estate once belonged to the 5th
Duke of Marlborough, and it is noted

527

1947

COUNTRY LIFE--MARCH 21,

Annuals

for its rich coilection of imported trees
and shrubs. The purchase price was
calculated on the basis of values as
in March, 1939.

Deddington Manor, Oxfordshire,
a modernised early Georgian residence
with 13% acres, and having a long
frontage in Deddington village on the
Oxford-Banbury road, has been sold
privately under instructions from the
executors of Major R. G. Roberts.
The purchaser is Major Phillip Spence.

CITY RENTAL OF £2,718

PIRITED bidding took the price

of Nos. 76-79, St. Paul's Church-
yard and 10, London House Yard,
known as Wren'’s View to £35,800,
at which Messrs. Jones, Lang, Wootton
and Sons declared it sold. Part of the
premises are still untenanted, owing
to war damage, but the flats and other
lettable accommodation yield a gross
rent of £2,718 a year. The freeholders
are the Ecclesiastical Commissioners,
who granted the lease in 1934, at a
ground rent of £1,350 a year, now,
through war damage, reduced to
£1,018 a year. The flats are subject to
the Rent Restrictions Acts.

SUTTON’S
GARDEN
SEED

CATALOGUE

FREE
On
REQUEST

NATIONALISATION
WARNINGS

d panic holders of railway

and electricity shares know what
they have to look forward to in the
shape of curtailed income if various
schemes now under consideration
materialise, and the trustees of
societies are warning their benefi-
ciaries of the serious reduction of
income that must follow the taking
over of the concerns by the Govern-
ment. Gradually the opponents of the
proposed interference with real pro-
perty are marshalling their arguments
against it, though so far there is a lack
of definite figures of probable loss.

It is significant that arrangements
are being made to bring large blocks
of freehold ground rents into the
market, as well as freehold business
premises, with immediate or carly

ssession, in all parts of London,
tom the centre of the City to the
remoter suburbs. For many years it
has becn known that the reversionary
value of sites and premises tended
rather to recede than to advance, and
the development proposals threaten
every type of private building, and the
conversion and improvement of exist-
ing property.

EMBARGO ON IMPROVEMENT
HE levy on development will put
a stop to improvements, and at
the same time mean a heavy increase
in renta, and this without benefit to
the builder, and when the general
trading outlook is uncertain and
obscure. The question iy not merely
one for financially powerful interests,
for there are, it is estimated, 4,000,000
persons classified as owner-occupiers.
Any possibility of ever gaining any- .
thing by the graduai change in charac-
ter of their districts, for example, by
allowing a dwelling-house to be con-
verted to business use, disappears
under development acquisition, Mr.
Dalton lately remarked: “We are
getting a very good bargain indeed in
obtaining for the community, for all
time, all development value present
and future, for the pa nt, within
five years, of £300,000,000."" Perhaps
he was reflecting that the Report of
the Barlow Committee, which included
eminent valuers and managers of reai
property, made an ‘‘ intelligent guess”
that the value in 1938 of the develap-
ment rights in undeveloped land, rural
and urban, was £400,000,000.
: ARBITER

DONT LOOK NOW-B8UT
/ THINK SOME PEDIGREE
JERSEYS ARE COM/NG

Tep-quallty pedigree Jerseys and Guernseys will pay
handsomely. These high milk yielding cattle—a 30-cow
herd grosses £600 a year—come from an attested area.
Their milk is worth 8d. a gallon more than ordinary milk
(4d. for T.T. and 4d. quality premium). On a 600-gallon
ylald this represents £20 a year per cow.

English Cattle Importers are specialists in Pedigree
Jerseys and Guernseys. Our Farms Department wil!
undertake to assist in the selection and management of
any herd formed through this concern. You want the
best Cattie, we have them. Inspection invited.

ENGLISH CATTLE IMPORTERS

WIX FARM e WEST HORSLEY
SURREY
Proprietor: Capigfé H. A. 5. Clarke.

325 COUNIRY LIFE—MARCH 21, 194,

A combination of mole and stone in diagonal velours; the
waisted topeoat with full sleeves that are caught by elastic
to various levols, the suit with a panel om the stone skirt, the

blouse maize crépe. Victor Stiebel gt Jacqmar

to the private clientele, and these clothes for the home market

show the same basic simplicity of line as the models designed for
export. Beautiful fabrics and subtle combinations of colour give
elegance to the clothes, which are above all things extremely wearable.
Gala evening dresses and some glamorous garden party and Ascot
creations remind us that the joys of summer will be here some time.

Tweeds are cut with classic simplicity. Town suits and ensembles
mostly fit closely, with the slender line broken by a touch of drapery
somewhere on the hip line or a fluid godet springing out at one point.
The other type of summer ensemble shows a pencil-slim dress under
a straight coat. The coat, when it is full length, tends to taper towards
the hem with a cape collar adding to the top-heavy look, or have godets
set in the back.

The prints are charming, mostly abstract in design in bright mixed
colours on light grounds. The aim on everything for day or night is to
make the waist look tiny. Some houses accentuate this by adding wide
starched petticoats under the full-gathered skirts: others have tiny
boned corsets specially made for wearing under the doll-waisted, full-
skirted dresses. This line has brought back a low, oval or boat-shaped
neckline with a fichu. a frill or drapery framing the shoulders—always
a most becoming line.

Norman Hartnell includes a series of slender, elegant evening
dresses in matt crépe that feature diagonal or spiral seaming and a
slanting décolletage. A long scarf that begins on the left shoulder,
twines over the top to make a sleeve and floats down to the hemline
carries on the Roman theme. His romantic satin crinolines are beautiful
as a picture. A garden party or bridesmaid frock for a young girl is

Cs the privat in the great Mayfair houses are now being shown
A

Tiered cap in suéde from
Leathercraft

Rose-beige felt sailor with a
rolled brim. Scotts

shown in white embroidered Swiss muslin, its high fitted bodice with
short puffed sleeves, The skirt, which moulds to the hips, is cut into
points at knee level where it bursts out into a wide foaming hem. This
dress is shown over a pale yellow slip and has a spray of yellow flowers
at the waist. The Hartnell bride is in pearly lamé with wide, soft
sleeves caught at the wrist, a gathered bodice and a skirt all soft folds.

The day dresses are short and trim with three-quarter or short
cap sleeves and are mostly cut high to the throat and collarless. A short
black chiffon is tucked all over, exceedingly sophisticated and dead

(Continued on page )

COUNTRY LIFE— MARCH

’
In early Spring
before the Green
VELVET CORDUROY JACKET
Two qualities : Narrow cord, in colours:
Nigger, Wine, Fawn, Green and Royal Blue.

Wide cord, in colours: Wine and Nigger.
With skirt and shoes.

from
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Telephone.: WHitehali 3181

Superbly styled Indian Lamb short coat
in @ fascinating muted grey shade...
an example from our Spring collection of

fine furs.

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Harvey Nichols

of Knightsbridge

Harvey Nichols & Co. Lid., Knightsbri London, S.W.1. SLOane 3440

230 COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 21,

plain. There is a town suit with a knife-
pleated skirt and a straight hip-length
jacket in one of the closely-woven soft-
textured -worsteds, brown and grey, and
this has one of the fashionable striped
blouses in maize and dark brown. The
whole outfit is as fresh and debonair as you
could wish for, A cotton gabardine mackin-
tosh is perfect for a voyage or hot climate.
Apricot coloured, it is belted in front, hangs
loose at the back and has a hood to pull
over the hair.

Victor Stiebel continues the tulip
skirts that he launched last season, showing
bevelled curves and a very neat unpadded
shoulder line. His printed frocks are out-
standing. A putty coloured crépe has a
pattern of stylised flowers in turquoise, clay
red and pale yellow. Its skirt is draped over
to one side, the top is cut low with a swag
of drapery covering the top of the arms and
twining over the hodice. A black print with
rosy pink flowers is slender as a willow wand
with a bolero top and long, plain sleeves.
it is shown under a black cloth coat with
deep armholes, cape collar and a hem that
tapers so that the general effect is top-
heavy. A print for Ascot has its petalled
skirt, curved up in front matching the wide
elbow-length cape sleeves. The print is in
a wrought-iron design in greys and blacks
on a white ground, a wonderfully caol-
Jooking print for a hot day.

Pastel crépe dresses have their slender skirts elaborately draped
their bodices cut low, their sleeves hanging to the wrists, wide and
straight. For evening Mr. Stiebel shows the same slender petalled
skirts with plain tops, and an immense rose tucked into the waist-line.
Colours are biscuit, mushroom, mist blue and a pale chalky blue. One
of the pale blues is especially pretty with a low square décolletage in
front and a tiny cape with narrow sequin fringe in supphire blue that
drapes over the arms and is caught at the points of the décolletage.
A print shows this same square, low décolletage in front with a high
back, a tight bodice and swags of drapery over the tup of the arms.

A distinct 1910ish influence marks the jackets in the Busvine

Caramel-coloured felt that is worn tilted slightly
forward, Scotts (Londen only)

1947

collection. They have the cut-away fronts,
the curves and the wrap-around hip line of
that period, shown with tight, short skirts.
In off-white velours and in flat fur, these
jackets have decided chic. The tailor-mades
have unobtrusive details, minute strappings
or diamond insets and darts on the waist-
line, to curve them to the figure. They are
built with the scientific precision of a com-
plicated engineering feat and have the
same smooth perfection of line,

The printed dresses are simple, wear-
able and extremely pretty. The skirts are
tight and the high, moulded bodices are
made without collars and with short
sleeves, A heavy. hopsack rayon printed in
an Egyptian striped pattern, clay red on an
ivory ground, is uncrushable, the ideal
frock for town or travelling. A cherry red
evening frock with a cross-over bodice slit
to the waist and filled in with a black jet
modesty vest has the jet used again to make
tiny fringed sleeves. A wonderful woollen
like a doeskin makes an off-white evening
jacket, cut like a coolie’s at the neck with
deep armholes and plain sleeves.

Angele Delanghe shows suits with
jackets that have a jutting line below the
waist~-this achieved by a fan of pleats or
a deep inverted pleat, Skirts are pencil-
slim or sun-ray pleated. Summer coats over
printed frocks fasten low almost to the
waist with long revers. The prints are cut
with pencil-slim skirts and draped bodices, brief draped sleeves. Cock-
tail dresses in heavy matt silk crépe are worn with straw and tulle hats
with shallow crowns and brims that are wider from side to side than from
front to back. These hats are worn on the back of the head and
generally have a large rose or spray of flowers laid under the brim and
tie on under the chin with tulle streamers. Brocade evening dresses
with full looped skirts and tiny fitted jackets were shown with the same

‘garden party” hats. Evening colours are pale lilac, ice blue and
grey for a brocaded silk, powder blue, black. A bride's dress in white
and silver brocade was cut high to the throat and hada cap of white roses
attached to ear pads of white feathers. BP, Joyce KuyNo.bs.

ACROSS.

Beauty Soap

exemplifies
all that is
best in the
art of soap
making. Name ...
(Mr., Mrs., ete.}

CONDITIONS OF # OF SALE AND, SUPPLY: This
mors rot ae Perlodioal is sold subject to the followin
or im any unauthor

way of Trade except at

CROSSWORD No. 893 & sesso cee at

Two guise
cle

s will be awarded for the first correct solution opened. Solutions
ed envelope) must reach “Cra&esword Ni 93, Country Lire,
lock Street, Covent Garden, London, net later than the

first post on Thursday, March 2 » 1947.

Note.—This Competition does uot apply to tbe United States.

Address ...

. O92. The winner vf this Crossword, the cord of which
appeared in “the iseue of March 14, will be annownced next week,

ACROSS.~—-! and 4, Curtain raisers; 9, Self-starter; a and 12, Primrose;

13, Cretins; 15, Anvils; 16, Thrall; 19, Prince; 20, Apiece; 23 Oliver:
26, Opener; 27, Rigours; 28 and 30, Back’ play 334, Honeysuckle;
Tutelar deities. DOWN. —1, Chapman; D teem 3 3, Infers; 5, ena 5
Seer; 7, Squeals; 88 State; 9, 'Sliver rem a 10, Roman candle; 13, Clinker!
14, Shrimpe: 17 18, Betray; 21, Doublet; 22, Prayers; 24, Ribera;
25, Boast; 26, ‘Gracie; 28, Kobe;'30, ; 30, Plot.

2 folowing sondiiions, sean

10. It looks as though in the end there were no
freedom in playing truant (11)

11, Opposite of stiffen (5)

12. A present which even the bare-footed might
not like to be given (5)

15. Cain’s South American offspring (5)

17 and 18. Landing the airman gets over before
Lent? (7)

19. Turn but a stone and start a strain (5)

2i. More than a throw for rank (5)

22. A nail has got twisted in it (5)

floods might treat the salt-pans ? (5)

qi he best is yet to be,
“The last of. , for which the first was.

made.”"—Browning (4)

27, What the centres of all towns have got to
possess ( (3)

28. But the doctors don’t do it for nothing (5)

90, Hangs (anagr.) (5)

$3, Protrude (5)

35. Where in Norfolk you may find a ring on the
beach and food, too (11)

86. In 13 down it has dropped (5)

37, Postmen must wear out a lot of it (11)

DOWN.
. Unstable headgear? (5)
. Howa caterpinar might take you falling down
Aras neck

- What aitain has in common with Venice (4)
. Chair from the Andes (5)
. Drops or shelters (5)
. South American port (11)
mperor enjoyed most? (6, 5)
. Elkcits (11)
. Cock-a-hoop? Just the reverse (11)
. ‘When sorrows come, they come not sinyle
———"'—Shakespeare (5)
15 and 16, Took a meal to the pub, (6)
20. May carry an arm or a stone (5)
4 and 25. Vegetable decay in automebiles (6)
. There are usually five, weather permitting (4)
28. ae pegs to require a French article. ‘Too
rad ! (5)
31 and &. A flower above the bedside lamp ? (10)
34. Anagram of 26 across (4)

&§.

8. The passage the
12,
13.
4

The winner of Crossword No, 891 is

Miss D. Robinson,
170, Kimbolyon Road,
Bedford.

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the modern way on “Burnrite” block:
Write for detatis: BAB, LTD. (C), 24a, Basinghall
Btreet, B,C.2.
© A HAPPY BINTHDAY™ present: Your Portrait

(in oils) from photograph and description.

Fee from 7 gns,—Hox 46.

LWAYS “WELL DRESSED WITHOUT

COUPONS. Tailor-made Suits, Overcoats,
Costumos, etc., guaranteed Turned and Re-
tailored as NEW. Over 30 years’ experience
Savile Row garments. Repaira. Cleaning and/or
Tatlor-pressing. Advice and estimate without
obligation. Bend NOW for early completion.-—
SACKVILLE TAILORING CO.. 1'TD, (Dept. C.L.),
6t, Bedford Htll, London, 8.W.12. Balham 1600,

JRAGs! UANDRAG BERVICRS COMPANY
will overhaul and renovate your handbag,
Finost craftsmanship. Send it for an estimate to
oe Now Bond Street, W.1 (next door Fenwiak'a.

OOKS OF TO-DAY.” the literary monthly,
publishes reviews, artioles, up-to-date
information on new books, A limited number of
new subscriptions can now be ancepted. 30/6 p.n.,
twolve iasves.—Write, CIRC, DEPT., B.O.T., 20,
Tudor Street, London. B.C.4.

COUNTRY LIFE--MARCH 28,

1947

CLASSIFIED ANNOUNCEMENTS

2}- per line (Minimum 8 Knee) Bow Fos 1/6

MISCELLANEOUS

HOTELS AND GUESTS

EULO (LONDON) LTD., Dressmaker. Famoun

in Vienna for charming dresses and contumes,
Will mao accept your material.—i5, Bruton
Street, W.l. Ma 8080. ie
‘¥ YOU WISH id io or to start a properly
authonticated cuilectton of Chelaea, Bow.
Worcester, Longton Hall, Lowestoft, Liverpool,
Bristoi or Plymouth porcelain, or of Lambeth.
Bristol, Liverpool or Wincanton @elft. or of Leeds
pottery, Whieldon slipware and other early
English pottery, wo shall be pleased to advise you
and to give you the benefit of our 95 years’ exper!-
enca ag collectors, without obligation. Bpecialists
also in the finest period Continenta! porcelain
and finest majolica.—-TILLEY & CO. (ANTIQUES)
UTD, (Frank and Kathleen Tilley), 2, Bymons
Street, Bloane Square, §.W.3. BLOane 4755.
Cables: Katilant. London. 1
JRViSISLE MENDING. “Burnt, Torn and Moth-
eaten Garments Invisibly Mended in two wooks.
Gok or send, marking damage clearly. All
Laddered Stockings Invisibly Mended in 3 days.—
BELL INVISIBLE MENDERS LTD., 73, New Bond
Stroct, W.L, and 108, Fleet Street. E.C4.
LAMB SEINE AND RABBIT FURS. beaati-
fully dressed, euttable for making gloves,
from 912 to 96/8 each.—Weite for
DOMESTIC FUR PRODUCERS,
un eadford, Yorks.
JMNEMONICON ‘an ingentous scheme) xent for
5/6 fee (no further charge). Designed for
performance of Momory Feats, Examinations,
Speochos, Entertainments, otc, Indispensable to
Students.—Obtain from BCM/LOGY, 16, Londun,

slippers, etc.,
particulars,

MoNomanks. Permanent London Adaress
Letters redirected, 6/-p.a. Royat Patronage.
—Write MONOMARK BCM/MONOI?, W.C.t,
URSE OLLIVIEH. Colonic lavage. 1
colds, obesity. headaches, indigestion .-
Mayfair 1085, and visits.

mnia,
‘Tel:

BooxPLaTEs—spurting, heraldic and decoray
Uve, designed to autt individual taste, 10 ens.
THT. PRIME, 1, Elton Gardens, Darlington.

CARPETS ‘and Upholstery cleaned “on “the
premises and made immune from moth dy
@uarantood D.D.T.Geigy process, Also generat
futerior cloaning. Estimates gladly given —
FLEET CLEANING SERVICES, 122, Southwark
Btroot, 8.5. WATerlon 1 4

OUPON ECONOMY. Fanric Shue re bovered,
Ladies’ own materiala,
GRAI

CGotron FRER

Leather uppers, felt lined, warm, neat, com-
fortable, iron or rubber added to heechwond
soled, Valuo and appearance unbeatable. Stamped
addressed envolape brings iuatrated ttst. Boots
fom 20/-.—C. L. TWERNWAY, LTD, Horley,
ey.
iATH-WATCH BEETLE. Furniture Boetie and
all wond-borers can be completely eradicated

by the polychlornaphthalenc WYKAMOL. ‘Tria
alge (1 pint) 4/-, post free.--Pull dote'lx from
RICHARDSON & STARLING, LITD.. Wincheater

DiAonvs: JEWELS, GOLD. BMEY ALS.
BAPPHIRES, ANTIQUE AND MODERN
SILVER PLATE, 41 Uiently required for
Export, Highest cash prices, The farkest buyers
in the country are HENTLEY & CU., G5, New
Bond Street (factng rook Street), W.1 :
MAYfalr 0651.

TAMON DS. JEWEL’ Old Gold, Ai tique

and Modorn Silver purchased for casn, Un-
usually Reh prices. Call or post: HOLMES,
La The Famous Jewellers and iteenanlyne,
Old Bond Stroot. W.1. (RI 08)

RO MAC's SPECIAL FLLGUE dm st Sa available

as usual, but while broud rationing lasts we
are sorry to have to ask you for three B.w.s per
thirty-#x for » 12-1b. bag. The price
remains the same. 5/4 including postage and fuit
baking tnatructions.—write, DR. MAC’S FLOUR
0., Kendal, Went orland.

VA RITCHEIL, 4, Borkeloy Street, W.1,

and creates Hate of charm and distinction,
and re-makes clients’ own hate with equal care,
Tel.: Mayfair 1651,

LMS FOR THE CHILDREN, First:

shows can bo made avaltable, within? miles of
Oxford Cireus, that will delight tho youngsters,
Cartoons a speciality. Write for full particulars
to WALLACE HEATON, LTD.. 127, New Bond
Btrent, Londo!
rootwear SRPATRA food whoea Inst much

longer when correctly repaired. Have your
shoes feen to now.—Port. to DOWIK AND
MARSHALL, LPD. (Bootmakers Busy), 32, Wig-
more Street, London, W.1, snd ask for estimate.
120 years’ reputation for crafuamanship.

tras, 139, New Bond ‘Bureet, Wi
fair 3456.

JFOUNTAIN PEN REPAIRS done quickly. A
large number of pens for aale, 23/6, packing
Qnd rogistratton 1/-. Al! guarantesd—F. W.
OLEVELAND, 14, Red Lion Square, London, W.C.)

URS: Good Furs bought und auld. Also

repaira and remodels; finost workmanship.-~
RALLI FURS, Regent House, 107, New Bond
Street, London, W,1, Mayfair 2325/6,

ANDBAGS. Relinings. Broken frames. clasps
etc., repaired by experts. Post.—-REMAKE

HANDBAG CO., 67, Brompton Road, 8.W.3, (Over

Tol.; May-

ih to buy Patchwork Quilts, Hand-
quilted Bedspreads and Pataley Shawls in good
condition,-Will owners please send full descrip-
tion to HEAL’S, 198, Tottenham Court Road, W.1,
ANDSMAN'S LIBRARY. tho apecialist postal
Vending library for farmers, can now offer
you a classified catalogue of over 600 books on
farming, gardening, forestry, and country mat-
ters. In addition to these, we try to supply any
book aaked for, 20 long as it deale with the land.
Hire charges are Sd., 64., or Od. per book, per
week, devending on retail price. There is no
subsoription. Send for particulars and catalogue.
—LANDSMAN'B LIBRARY, 7.2 (C.L,), Apple-
Rarth Studios, Augustine Road, London, W.14.

LD MASTERS Restored and Cleaned. Pictures
examined. Unbiased. authoritative opinions
by advisers to public galleries and private collec-
tors—ART CONSULTANTS. 85, Eocleston
Square, London, 8.W.1. Vietorla 0n62,
ACEFORM tells you how they all ran, Twice
4 week on tho Flat.—Full particulars and
terms from 55, Curzon Street. London, W.1.
ECTIONAL BUIT.DINGS. No xteo) or timber
licence required. Fireproof and everlasting.
Aizes from 15 ft. to 100 fb. long. by 18%: ft. wide.
Box 5
E NOW HAVE BTOCKS of Wrousht-Iron
Firo-dogs and Barkets. Cun ala be made to
your own requirements.—PERIOD WROUGHT
IRON CO... ‘Thotin House, Kelvedon. "Phone 3

cig WANTED:
SHOT GUNS: WANTED TO TURCHASE. Con-

dition immaterial if capable of repair. BEST
PRICES pald for any kind of 12b, Send for inspec-
tion; immediate return If offer not. uccaptable.
CHARLES RIGGS & CO, (proprietors of E. M.
Rolly & Co., Fat. 100 years), 22 Wormwood Street,
London, K,.C.2. Write for Gun and Crop Protection
lists, Gun repairs; best work, City prices,

ANTED, Hooks about Dutch and Plominh
painters and paintings of the 17th centurs

E_ PIKE. 44, Richmond Park Ave.. Rournemouth.
pore 2S ee el aul

EDUCATIONAL

AN ATTRACTIVE CAREER. “The Wetreat.

York, the well-known Hospitul mannged by
4 Committee of the Society of Friends, provides
@ first-class training in Mental Nursing. Con-
ditions of Service: Well-appointed Nurses’ Home
in attractive surroundings. Separate bedrooms,
Tndoor and outdoor recreations. Swimming pool.
Tenntr courts. One whole day and two half days
every week off duty. Salaries and bonuses (in
addition to board, lod«ing, uniform, etc.), first
year of training, £76: second year of training, £40:
Unird year of ruining, &85. Bonus at the end of
the first year, £10: at the end of the recond year,
on passing the Preliminary Examination of tho
G.N.C., £20: and at the end of the third year, £30,
A Qualified Mental Nurse at the end of three
years’ traning rocoives £140 per annum, rixing
to £180.--Write for prospectus to The Matron,
The Retreat, York.

OUBE OF SOCIAL SENVICK. Girls from 17

trained in Children’x Welfare, Homecratt,
Selectian of careers.—Apply; PRINCIPAL, Great
Hollanden. Hildenborough, near Sevenoaks, Kent,

EARN BEAUTY CULTURE. A fascinating

career for gentlewomon.—Write for particu-
lars, Bec., LONDON INSTITUTE OF BEAUTY
CULTURE, 6, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W.1

FANNEQUIN TRAINING, Beauty Culture.
Vacancies for pupils. Postal Courses a
ranged. Diploma.—Write for proxpectux: THE
RA ONeL INSTITUTE OF DEPORTMENT,
Sidew

your art “ci "send one. for fre
booklet of ultra-modern tuition sn your_own
home. Be porsonally trained by one of Fleet
Street's leading Pross Artixts LONDON ART
OLLEGE, Dept. 63, 143, Fleet 8u
Gtovents accepted by Gen lemun Market

Gardener for 12 month course In ylusshouse,
cloche, and cut flower commercial cultivation.
ee. including boara and lodging, £96.—Paruicu-
rs frovn Box 897,

LIVESTOCK el pee
ALSATIAN Dog Puppies for sale. 10 woeks,
cellent pedigree.—HALI, Market Overton,

Be
nards. Adults and puppies.—MRS. M. E.
bebrpe Newbridge St. Kennels, 267,
‘Tettenhall Road, Wolverhampton.
fH 8}

R gad

companions, excellent gun dogs, born 16/1/46,

from & gns.—Write or telephone PULSFORD,
‘Thaxted. Number 265.

GQ PLENDIp opportunity start breeding” Smooth

Fox Terrier, reg., ped., had one Ittter only.—
FE, LOOKER, Markyate, St. Albans.

N ATTRACTIVE HOLIDAY fm beautiful and
mild West Wight, The Osborne Private Hotel,
Freshwater Bay, isle of Wight, offers hospitality,
bathing, boating. fishing, golf and excellent food.
Garage. Reduced terms to early apring visitors
Summer terms from 5 ta 6!: gna, per week. Tel.:
Freshwater
)GURNEMOUT
HOTEL MIRAMAR. EAST OVERCLIFF
Facing sea. Full south aspect. An hotel of
unusual charm offering every modern facility,
Phone 1061.
pzticarrtr Georgian house recently opened
a3 a Guest Houso, Situated amidat beautiful
country between Canterbury, Folkestone and
Dover, and within easy reach of several coastal
resorts. Stands in six acres of private grounds
including miniature park and orchard; golf near;
Tastefully furnished and decorated;
ant cuisine, Send for brochure.——"Hezling
* Shepherdawell. Kent. 'Phone 233,
‘ATHOURNE. THE CAVENDISH. A de luxe
Hotel on the Grand Parade, where you will
find comfort, warmth and perfect service. Excel-
lont culsino. Private bathrooms. Central heating
throughout and tolephones in every room.—

PIMM'S, LTD.. Proprietors, P. Churchman,
Manager. Tol.: Eastbourne 2740. .
ISHING. GRIFFIN HOTEL, March, Cam

Very comfortable accommodation from 6 gna:
weekly. Facilities good coars® fishing, three
important rivers. Also near Norfolk Const,
Phone: March 3215.

JT to fx Not wurprising that visllors to Budleigh

Salterton Invariably return and stay (if accom-
modation is avalluble) ut THE OTTERBOURNE
Hotel, where first-class Yorkshire cooking and
% ood wine list, with warmth and comfort, are
assured. Let us sond you our brochure describing
thix small but well-known and well-conducted
Hotel on Devon's glorious coastline, where reat
or recreation may be enjoyed amid lovely sur-
roundings end viows ineaualeds AA. RAC,
Phone 2. No children under

Loxpow are oe

WESTMINATER-
BT. ERMIN'S

BT. JAMES'S PARK, 8.W.1

AN IDEAL BITUATION, quiet and secluded
yet clore ta Whitehal! and only one minute from
the Park and Underground Station, Weli fur-
Mixhed, comfortable hotel badroome, fitted h, and
«, basing, telephone and central heating, with and
without private bathrooms,

From 16:6 per night, with dreakfast.
Attractive features include @ particularly charm-
ing public lounge, restaurant und private roomy
for parties (fully licensed).

‘Velephone: Heception. Whitehall 3176.
Londen.
EWQUAY. CORNWALL
KNOWLE LINKS HOTEL
{adjoining Golf Club House and overlooking
FISTRAL BAY), 60 bedrooms. Bridge, dancing,
Special winter terma.

Tole.

and gamer. "Phone:

Newquay 245, = aha
‘ORTH CORNWALL. Wiisey Down Hotel, near
Launceston. Shooting. Fishing. Between

moors and sea, Good cooking; own farm. Com-

fortable betes Fully Mconaed.—WHITTINGHAM,
‘Vel: Otte m Station 205.
USSEX. raBent HIDL HOTEL. Rushiake

Green. Famous for ite cuisine, service,
glorious position and gardens. Herd court, swim-
ming pool, Terma 7 gps. No extras. Telephone:
Rushlake Green 312. £9

ST OF IRELAND
RENVYLE HOUSE HOTBI,, RENVYLE,
CONNEMARA

First-claas modern Hotel. Electric light, central
heating. constant hot water, In lovely aurround-
ings on tho edge of Atlantic Ocean. Fishing,
viding, Hrat-class cuisine. fully stocked cellar.
Book now for Spring and Bummer,

SITUATIONS WANTED

{XPERIENCED Housokeoper icontlewoman)
Aged 42.

desires situation where maid(s)
Fond of animals and expertenced driver.
ADY GO) requires post where sound
and tove of animals an advantage; would
assist light ¢uties in house; some knowledge
ooking and clert ‘Write Box 336.
RE-PREP. Sch: stablishment.
Educated woman wants post, domestic, busi-
nean, Mbrary and administrative experience.
Would assist mother with first b: —Box 238,
EX RETARY-ACCOUNTANT seeks position on
estate or large farm. or as Private Secretary,
Expert. estate and farm accountant and corres-
pondent. All office records. Taxation. Typing.
Experienced bloodstock and pedigree records,
™maintenance, tenancy agreements. cropping
schedules, farm valuatfons, Uaed to responsi-
bility and acting on own initiative. Highest
refereni Box 11

'OORLAND KB®EPER, experienced and well
recommended, required to take charge of
Westmorland Grouse Moor known as Stowgill
and Kettlepot (near Barres, Kirkby Stephen.
Apply, giving full particulars, to the AGENT,
Eatate Office, Appleby Castle, Appleby, Went-
mortand.
'EIONT, GWYRFAI AND LLYFNI FISHERY
BOARD. Applications are invited for the
appointment of Water Bailiff under the above
Board at a salary of £4/10/- per week plus 10/-
per week travelling allowance, The successful
applicant must be able to drive a motor cycl
supplied by the Board and’experionce of hatcherts
would be desirable but not essentis!. Appiica-
tions stating age and experience with namos of
two referees to whom inauirles will be made,
must resoh the undersigned by not later than the
10th day of April, 147.—J, FRTORARD JONES,
Clerk to the Board. 25. Banror Street, Casrnarvon ,

1 FsoNE Tesi Fencral purpose Hammer Gui of
merit by “Kegan.” Low hammers, Al con-
dition, £93.—Box 2°9,
IRL'S JUDNT URB, Moss Bros..cood condition,
27 in. waist, 27% inside leg. &6,—Box 244,

FOR SALE

PRtACE Riding Boots Con's) size 6, full, wooden
trees, excellent condition, £10, Youth’s Din-

ner Suit, waist 33, tneide leg 31. cheet 38, £10. Also

blue Berge Suit. waist 33, inside leg 31, chest 38,

10, Youth's riding Breeches, waist 28%, 24.

MRS. E. A, BERNARD, East Court, Nelling, Maid-

atone, Kent. 7
ARPETS. Army Officer has for gale: One hand-
made Indian Carpet, green. new, 10 ft, 6in. x

8 ft. 6 1n; also one fawn snd green, new, Ale Of, Bin.

x 6ft. 3in.; one hand-made Indian Rug. marvon,

new, sige Tft, 6 in. x 4 ft. Gin.; one hand-made

Persian rug. brown and red. new, size 6ft. x

3ft, Bin, Highest offers accepted. Near Alder-

shot.—Box 245.

SE WALLPAPER, -paint Unen
back, pale blue ground, birds, trees, bright
coloured flowers. Two pieces 8 ft. 9 in. by 6 ft, 2 in,

One piece with space for mantelpiece, 7 ft. by 5 ft.

Tin, Ono ptece 8it.4in. by 19ft. 21n, Can be

seen London.—Write Box 145.

DOUBLE DIVAN BED. “BOX SPRING, with
haraehatr mattress, £25. Been London, Box 286
UNS for aale (one of @ pair), very fine, light

16-bore hammerless ejector by James Purley,
fn perfect order. nase, £145. Fine light 12-bore
hammeriess ejector by Wm. Evans, case, £85.—

Apply, Hev. F. MEYRICK-JONEA. Layton Houne,

Shaftesbury, whore kuna can be soon.

JAAVE YOUR FAVOURITE SUIT COPIED tn a
John Peel Countryside Tweed from £6/3/6 and

26 coupons. Fit guaranteed or money refunded,

Sond 8d. for patterna.—-RENMAYNES, 8 Wigton,

Cumberland,

EADSTONES, HECOMBENT “STONES,
CROSSES, MEMORIAL TABLETS, etc.,
dosigned by well-known Sculptors for erection in
any part. Incised Roman lettering. Sketch
deaigns prepared free. Lltuatrated Book on

Memortala, 7/€ port free, or on loan from the

Gecretary, SCULPTURED MEMORIALS, 67,

Fbury Street, London. §.W,1. Tel,: Sloane 6540,
ADY‘B Hunting Hoots, size 6%, 14 in. calf, made
1938, only worn few times; with hollow waod

trees, €10.10'-. Been London by arrangement,—

MAS. BEVIN, Melcomb, Newport, Co, Mayo.

LApy's Brown Tweed Belted Coat, satin lined,
as new, bust 87, hips 40.—Box 247.

EICKSTEN CARAVAN CENTRE announces wll
Caravans exempt from purchase tax, You can
now buy your home or holiday Caravan free of
tax. 1647 Eccles *‘Enterprise”; Coventry Steel
“Knlaht 47"; Carlight; Cheltenham; Siddall and
many others. Supplics will be limited. Secure
yours now.—L.C.C., 489, Aylestons Road, Leices-
ter. "Phone 3202. ae moutty
‘O COUPONS. Two lengths exceliont Grey Pin-
atripe and Brown Pinstripe, modium weight,
Lounge Buttings. lonxths 3! yards, width 60 1n..

£10 cach. Also dark blue double-breasted Lounge
Sult. rarely worn, size 6 ft., average build, £16.—
Box 241,

QAK CANTEEN” OF CUTLERY, ‘pies
unused, individually fitted Jn blue vel
1a muinens pr near offer —Rox 249_ -
NE pair Dady's Newmarket Boots, slze 7,
perfect. condition, No coupons. - Box 252.
AILLARD 16 mm. Cinv Comers, Hektor und
Maver lenses. as new. Offers —LOTIMEH,
Thickwood, Elmstsad Lano, Chislehurst.
AIR of Willlam Evans 16-bure Guns, as new.—
Box 260,
AINTING.
101; In,, on copper.
. £100. Box

“te Maitre Dentiste." 19%: in. x
Signed ond dated G. Don

Exclusive finger-tip mo
valued £180, nearest offer.
Golden lamb Swagger, £30, Youthful white
Yivening Model, &20, All d4-tn, bust. Modern and

‘tn length. in good order, £20.
Fair of Gentleman's modturn weight brawn
brogue Shoes, small seven, almort new, bought
Maxwell, £4. Navy blue Chauffour’s Cont. 38 chert,
and cap, 6%, Httle used, £8/10'—MRS, COBB,
Oak Hour hurst. Basings
ERY high-class Game and Wildfowl! Gun,
12 b. ejector, 28 m. blue fluld steel barrels,
speciatly chambered for full Joad shot, by Wm.
Powell & Bon. In exquisite buff leather cage lined
red morocco by Purdy, with Purdy and W, Powell's
credentials, etc. £90, burgain.—RULLARD,
Oetey House, Bedford

Waistcoat and Striped
“Troveces, AU Bit, 19 im. Boy's Dinner Jucket
Buit, size 10. Both first-class quality and condl-
tion. 10 a9 each.—Box 246.
GARDENING
For TOP-DRESSING Carriage Drives and Gar-
‘den Paths, etc. The Celebrated Breedon Self-
Betting Red Footpath Gravel.—Apply : BREEDON
AND CLOUD HILL LIME WORKS, LTD., Breedon
on-the-Hill, tear Derby. are
PFAZEL GARDEN STICKS Golected, € ft, 20
6 ft, 25/-, 6 ft, 90/-, 7 ft. 35/-, B ft. 40/-, 9 ft, 45/-
10 ft, 80! per 100, Hardwood Tree Stakes (un-
pointed). 6 ft, 12/-, 7 ft. 14/-. 8 ft. 16/- pet donen?
pointed 2/- per dozen extra. Larch or hardwood
Runtic Arches, 6 ft, x3 ft. @ tn. G0/-, 8 ft. x 6 ft.
95/- cach, In three pieces, Quotetions for other

requirements. Carriage paid your station.
B.A. BROWN, Canal Wharf, Letghton Bussard.

ASPBERRY CANES, ready now for planting.

Norfolk Gianta, grown on the famous Boottigh
farms in Dundee and Blairgowrie, SPECIAL
OFFER, 25 for 7/8: 50. 1/6: 100. 20/-; 500 lots
upwards, 18/6 per 100; 1,000 lots, £6/10/-, Cash with
order, carriage patd. Delivery at once.—
SMEDLEY C. ANGUS FRUIT FARMS, LTD.,

Blairgowrie, Perthshire.
“ COUNTRY Li?
Vor Sale ee
(OUNTRY LIFE" copies for sale, Jan, 1043
Dec, 1940, Offera ? Wanted, “We Like the
Country,” by Anthony Arm! —WATEINSON,
% Silhil] Hall Road, Solihull, Warwicks.
Wanted
WASTED. copies of “Country Lifer for Gcisher.
Novernber and December, 1048. Offered 9d.
per copy plus postage.—Aj Box 261.

OTHER PROPERTY AND AUCTIONS
‘ADVERTISING PAGE M2

* COPIE

Vol. CI No. 2619

KNIGHT,

CHILTERN HILLS, 500 FEET UP

7 miles from Ayleabury. 7m from Berkhameted.
A Freshold widential and Agricuitural Property.

THE FAMOUS HOME FARM, TRING

AN EXCEPTIONALLY ATTRACTIVE MODERN HOUSE
Three reception, rooms, 10 bed and dressing rooms, 3 bathrooms-
All main services, Central heating.

Magnificent range of model farm buildings.

All brick-built and tiled and including shire and hunter stabling.
Tyings for 53 cows. 6-unit milking parlour.
Exceptionally fine tiled dairy.

6 COTTAGES. CONVENIENT PADDOCKS. IN ALL 114 AGRES
For SALE by AUCTION at an early date (unless previously sold).

Solicitors: SAMUEL J. WEAVER, Esg., 30, Clarendon Road, Watford.
Auctioneers: Messrs. KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY. (Particulars !/-.}

By direction of S. BR. Askew, Hsq.

A delightful replica of a 16th
century Sussex house, built of
brick, rendered and partly half
timbered with Norfolk reed
thatched roof. A considerable
quantity of ‘English oak was
used in the construction, it is
unusually well fitted and in
excellent order throughout,

Three reception rooms, 8 best
bed and dressing rooms and
3 bathrooms (in suites) 4 servants’
rooms and bathroom. Central
heating throughout. Main services.

Garage for 3 cars and 3 loose
boxes with chauffeur’s rooms.
Gardener’s cottage. :

ANGLESEY

7 miles from Bangor. 1 mile from station.
With extensive views of the Snowdon Range.

Attractive email Modern House extremely well built of stone
and in excellent order throughout.
It occupies a delightful secluded position facing south and is
approached by a carriage drive of 150 yards. ,
Three reception rooms, 3 bedrooms, bathroom, modern domestic
offices, servants’ room, “ Aga” cooker. ;
Exceptionally good stabling, Farm buildings. Lodge. Delightful
gardens, with lawns, walled kitchen garden, grass and arable land.
In all ABOUT 19 ACRES
FOR SALE, FREEHOLD, WITH POSSESSION
Sole Agents : KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY, (43,339)

Mi ir 377)
10 fines)

20, HANOVER SQUARE, LONDON, W.1

MARCH 28, 1947

FRANK & RUTLEY ~—

SOUTH DORSET

4 miles from Weymouth. 4 miles from Dorchester.
A charming Country house dating from the early 17th century.

UPWEY MANOR

Surrounded by beautiful gardens bounded by the River Wey.
4 reception rooms, billiards room, 10 principal bed and dressing rooma,
4 bathrooms, 4 servants’ bedrooms. ntral heating. Companies elec.
tricity and water. Main drainage. Garage. Stabling with flat over,
The gardens are partly walled. Fine specimen trees, lawns, kitchen
arden with Vinery and 2 greenhouses, orchard and paddock.
ABOUT 9 ACRES. VACANT POSSESSION ON COMPLETION
For SALE by AUCTION at the Property Sale Room, Dorchester,
on Wednesday, April 16, at 3 p.m. (unless previously sold).
Solicitors: Messrs. VERTUE, SON & CHURCHER, 19, HanoverSq., W.1.
Auctioneers: Messrs, HY. DUKE & SON, Dorchester, and
Messrs. KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY.. (Particulars 1/-.)

WEST SUSSEX COAST

IN A BEAUTIFUL POSITION WITH FRONTAGE TO THE SEA

THATCHINGS, ALDWICK

Charming grounds with lawns

flower beds and hard tennis court

About 1 4, ACRES FREEHOLD
VACANT POSSESSION

For SALE by AUCTION at an
early date (unfess = sold
privately).

Solicitors: Messrs. RICHARDS
BUTLER & CO., 88, Leadenhall
Street, E.C.3.

Auctionce Messrs. TREGEAR
AND SONS, Aldwick Road, West
Bognor Regis, and
GHT, FRANK AND

(Particulars 2/6).

COBHAM, SURREY

Secluded situation on high ground with pleasant views.
London 22 miles.

A distinctive modern Residence built of ,brick with stone
mullions and tiled roof. Approached by a drive and enjoying
south and east aspects. Excelient order throughout.
Lounge hall, 3 reception rooms, cloakroom, Good offices with maids’
sitting room, 7-9 bed and dressing rooms, 3 bathrooms. Central heating.
Mam electric light, power and water. Excellent garages for four.
Modern bungalow cottage with 3 rooms, bathroom, etc.
Attractive grounds including terrace garden, rose garden, hard tennis
court, kitchen garden, grass and woodland. Total about 5 acres,
FOR SALE FREEHOLD IMMEDIATE POSSESSION
AgentS : Messrs. KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY. (37,557)

Bd airy
‘Galleries, Weedo, London.”

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Nd
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536 COUNIRY LIFE--MARCH 28, 1947

JACKSON-STOPS & STAFF

8, HANOVER ST., LONDON, W.1. — savran 3316/7
CESTER, NORTHAMPTON, LEEDS, YEOVIL, CHICHESTER, CHESTER, NEWMARKET AND DUBLIN

» Cemtwein, he te going @broad. NORTH WILTSHIRE
54 milea Kemble Junction. Cirencester 4 mile:

paar z

Delightful grounds in beautiful order, and paddock,
IN ALL 31; ACRES

THE FOSSE, DRIFFIELD,
Nr, CIRENCESTER

A BEAUTIFUL AND WELL MODERNIGED
SMALL COTSWOLD RESIOENCE
Lounge, 2 sitting rooms and study, cloaka, 6 bed and
dressing rooms, wonderfully fitted bathroom. Modern
kitchen with Aga cooker, gas Frigidwire, ete.
Outbulhlings, garage and useful buildlow, a large new
greonhouse (aan hented),

Centra] heating throughout. Deep bore water supply

and electric pump. Own elvctricity. Hot and cold

throughout. Malin gas, Low outgoings, Septic tank
drainage. Telephone,

To be sold by Auction In May, unless privately
sold.

or the Golicitors: Meesre. SEWELL, RAWLING & PERKING,

£ y KSON-STOPB, Castle Street, Ci: ter (Tel.
Full detalles fram the Auctioneers: Mesers. JACKSO: $ hatle 6 treet. © iresooster.( rah

KENT

On the outskirts of tiny mediawul port, 14 miles fron: Royal St. George's Golf Course

BEAUTIFUL ELIZABETHAN RESIDENCE
Charmingly original but with every modern refinement,

Hall, 3-4 reception rooms, 7-8 bedroonm, mostly with wash-hand basins, 2
luxurlows bathrooms, completely up-to-date domestic offices, Central heating
and constant hot water. Main electric light. water and gas. Cottage.

Gardens and grounds, about 3 ACREB, jn perfect order,

FOR SALE FREEHOLD

with VACANT POSSESSION on compietion.

Full partiouiare from JACKBON-STOPS & STAFF, 8, Hanover Street,
‘W.1 (Mayfalr 3316/7).

CHICHESTER HARBOUR WEST SURREY

Quietly situate with yardena fronting the water-nide. 40 milex London and 3k miles from station with half-hourly service.
A MOST CHARMING RESIDENCE

possessing complete beauty of design and appointment, s
having entrance hall, cloakroom, 3 reception roome, 7 LOVELY GEORGIAN HOUSE
bedrooms (most. titted with hasina), studfo, 3 bathrooms,

domestic offices with Agu cooker, maid’s room,
CENTRAL HEATING. MAIN WATER AND COTTAGE, FARMERY.
ELECTRICITY.

Three receptton, 7 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms,

Double garage, Delightfully plamued gardons with orchard. AE Re cee poe
vate tage. Cai ors cottage.
rivate landing stage. Gardener's cottage 21 ACRES
ABOUT 3 ACRES Largely cultivated asa market garden.
PRICE FREEHOLD £2
E 10,000 £12,000

(reasonable offera considered).

Detalle of JACKSON-8TOPS & STAFF, 37, Bouth
Street, Chichester (Tel.: 3443).

JACKSON-STOPS & STAFF, B, Hanover Street, W.1 (Mayfair 3316/7).

WINKWORTH & CO.

4, CURZON STREET, MAYFAIR, LONDON, W.i

HERTS. VILLAGE GREEN BEAUTIFUL BUCKS. BEECHWOODS

Groevenor 3121
(@ linea)

In @ pleasant rural position, 400 feet above sea. Main line etation one mite. Ideal One mile from station, with fast trains taking 40 minutes to town. Over 400 ft. above sea
Sor daily travel to London by road or rail. level, with delightful south views,
A WELL-BUILT COUNTRY HOUSE A SUPERBLY FITTED COUNTRY HOUSE OF EXCEPTIONAL

Facing south and approached by a carriage drive. CHARACTER
. Bix best bedrooms, 2 bath- Containing many apectal fe. -

rooms, nurseries, staff bed- features: Kight best bed-
rooms, hall, aad 3 excellent rooms (3 suites), nursery
reception rooms, wing, maid's rooma and 3

; more bathrooms, fine oak-
, CENTRAL HEATING, panelled hall and 3 recep
_ MAIN WATER, ELKC- diktocass

TRICITY AND GAS.
MAIN HLECTRICITY,

WATER AND GAS.

Stabling, garage and fiat.

Cottage. MODERN DRAINAGE.
Garage with cottage.
1 Pleasantly timbered gar- Squash court, foriner hard
dens and grounds, with tennis court, ample kitchen
1 Kitchen garden, orchard, garden and lovely grounds,
paddock, all in good order, well known in the district, Ay

FOR SALE WITH 37 ACRES. PRICE 5,000
(or with the majority of the valuable contents, If preferred).
Bole Agents: Wixxworts & Co., 48, Curzon Street, Mayfair, London, W.1.

FREEHOLD FOR SALE. PRICE £12,500 WITH 8 ACRES.

To view apply to the Sole Agents: WingwoaTH & Co., 48, Curson Street, Mayfair,
London, W.1,

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 28, 1947 537

KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY

TUNBRIDGE WELLS and EASTBOURNE Hy direction of Kzurn, of the late Mr, Bdmund Godward.

(Between) SUSSEX
1 mile Horam Village, 4 miles Haiisham, 12 miles Lewes. 4 miles Three Bridges and 4 miles East Grinstead.
Delightful panoramic views to the South Downs. Excellent service of trains to London in 45 minutes,
*GAMELANDS."’ HORAM THE GRANGE, CRAWLEY DOWN
Substantially built residence, compietely modernised at con- STANDING NEARLY 450 FEET UP WITH GOOD VIEWS

siderable expense, and approached by drive with entrance lodge.

‘Twa reception, winter garden, 5 bedrooma, bathroom, exerllent offices and staff pnt. e
a." pas Four reveption roums, billiards room, conservatory, 1 bedroons, 3 bathrooms, eon
electriett}, good water supply, niodern «ratnage. pact donieatle offices, Central heating, mal clvetrlelty, water and drainage,
Two garages, stabling, hay barn, onet house, and other outbulldings. Well-wooded gardens and groutids.

A residence mainly of the Georgian period.

forked itsiwn garden: small lake with boathouse, termacet and rocker” Bien = SGaradee, Roses copndes end: Grands ledae. a detached’ Residence:
pasture end arable land. Woodland. Valuable main road frontage. An important Accommodation Field
ABOUT 575, ACRES. FREEHOLD. ABOUT 35 ACRES
Vacant possession, except Lodge, on completion. Vacant possession of the main residence on completion.
For SALE by AUCTION at an early date (unless previously sold), For SALE by AUCTION at an carly date (untess previously avid).

Soticitors: Menars, PLEY &« HURST, Kastbourne, Sussex
Auctioneers: Messrs, HURTE HAW & SON, Hablats
FRANK & RUTI , 2th Hanover Square, London,

Solicitors: Measrs, WHITE & MASO:
Auetionerra: Mesnra, KN FRANK & RUTLE
(Particulars 1/-.)

East. Grhitend.
20 Hanover

London, Wat,

Mexars. KN
(Particulars 1

& Tek
rane NICHOLAS s ikebeionen Placy, aan”
(Eatablished 1882) “Nicholas, Reading"
4, ALBANY COURT YARD, PICCADILLY. W.1t: t. STATION ROAD, READING

OXON-BUCKS. CHILTERNS

TOO feet up, lovely xheltered porition, amidat unapoill surroundings with far-reaching views.
Jany access of Henley-on-Thames anil Hunterconbe Golf Course.

FOR SALE

A perfert. example of « GENUINE TUPOR

COTTAGE molerniacd and enlarged in the tradition

preserving all the old features and ts boy perfect order.

Accommodation: 2 reeeptiun rvome, 5 bedroome.

bathrooms, up-to-date kitchen, modern range, Calor
gas cooker. Three garages,

‘The old-workd garden, beautifully Inid out in keeplog

with the property, having wide herbaceous borders,

choles fowerlug xhrubs, rose garden, apecimen fruit

IN ALL ABOUT 13, ACRES

» amd tne etd: timber abe paddock

CENTRAT HKATING, AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC IMMEDIATE POSSESSION,

LIGH'T AND WATER PUMPING PLANT.

Further particulars and photographs can be obtained fron: the Sole Agents as above.

5, GRAFTON ST., MAYFAIR, W.I.

TOTTENHAM COURT RD., W.! MAPLE & Co, Lr. " (rewems 4008)

‘Euston 7000)

ON THE BANKS OF THE THAMES

Only 10 niles fron Town.

A DELIGHTFUL MODERN RESIDENCE

In excellent order with all modern conveniences, conten)
heating, etc. Hall cloakroom, mahogany panelled lounge,
salon and dining room, oak panelled Ubrary, 0 bedroons,
6 bathrooms, excellent. offers, maids’ sitting room.

Garage and boathouse,

Charming garden, river Jawn, herbuccous borders, heated
greenhouses and kitchen garden.

FREEHOLD TO BE SOLD
complete with the expensive furnishings.

WMustrated particulars of the Owner's Agents: MAPLE & Co., Ltn, 5, Grafton Street, Mayfair, W.1.

By order of the Brecutors of Lord Blanesturgh, decd,
WINCHELSEA, SUSSEX
“THE GREY FRIARS"”
A MOST ATTRACTIVE HOUSE IN BRICK AND STONE
in good condition, for Immediate occupation.

2 a Completely modernised and
redetiorated prior to the
war, Accommodation on
two floors: « ptlneipal and
GH accondary bed aud dress-
fom, rooms, § bathroonue

WACK, founge hall ane
Jon rooms, good
offices, 'Ampie
ecllarage. Central heating
and main services.
garage, chauffeurs
and entrance lodg
Elevated situation ny lens
aut gardens with parkland.
About 28 ACRES
FREEHOLD WITH
VACANT POSSESSION

ist. We. Woon. SON & GARDNER (i823,

CRAWLEY SUSSEX |

SUSSEX
Between Handeross and Horsham.
Ovorlooking the delightful headland valley of St. Leouarda Forest, an exceptionally
well-bullt UNIT if pnesroanes. Four main and 4 secondary bodroous,
3 reception room, 3 bat xeellont garages and stables and a flat over, together
with approximately er Cnae of well ge trash flower gardens, paddock and

MAIN ELECTRiG LIGHT. sae vae 3 “WATER. CENTRAL HEATING
THROUGHOUT. MODERN SYSTEM OF DRAINAGE.
For Sale £7,860 Freahoid Vacant possession

SUSSEX—SURREY BORDER

ATTRACTIVE MODERN LABOUR-SAVING COUNTRY
HOUSE

Ideally situated a dally. travel ww the elty. Accommodation: 4 bedroonw, dining
room, lounge (16 ft, x 15 ft.), tiled bathroom, exceptionally good janiechen earaue,
‘well tended and matured grounds of about 1; ACRE:

MAIN KLECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER. GAS. COMPANY'S ents
MODERN SYSTEM OF DRAINAGE.
Fér Sais Freehold &6,760 with immediate poseession.
For further particulars please apply above Agents.

HE WEST FRONT
For Sale by Auction at an early date (if not previously sold privately) by

Messrs. DANIEL SMITH, OAKLEY & GARRARD
22, BT. JAM STREET, LONDON, 8.W.1. Tel.: Whitehall 0388/6.
Illustrated particulars, plan and conditions of sale (when ready). price 2/8, from the
Auctioneers, as above, or the Baltcitore: Moesrs, fs RAILEYE SUAW Giiterr, 6, Berners
Street ion, W,

RESIDENCE

Four reception rooms, 7 principal and 5 secondary bed and
dreraing rooma, 4 bathrooma, complete domestic offers,

GAKAGK WITH FLAT OVER.

Squash court, Hard tennis court,

Regent S222 (15 lines)

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE,

In @ pretty unspoilt village (bus route i mins).

fnepeeted and recommended by HAMPTON & SONS, 6, Arlington Street, St. Jamen's,
S.WA1. (5.49.44)

AN ATTRACTIVE AND DIGNIFIED

CHARMING OLD SUSSEX RESIDENCE

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 28,

HAMPTON & SONS

6, ARLINGTON STREET, ST. JAMES'’S, S.W.1

Telegrams: ‘Beiantet, Plooy, Londen”’

MAIDENHEAD

AYLESBURY AREA

WELL- APPOINTED
HALF-TIMBEREO

Reconstructed frou four

Jamen IL cottages. Six bed..

3 bath., 8 reception, Central

heating. Main electri light
and water.

Small garden and 1 ACRE
in addition with tennis and
fruit trees.

FREEHOLD £8,000

MODERNISED PERIOD HOUSE
WITH CREAM-COLOURED EXTERIOR

Apply: HAMPTON & SONS, 6, Arlington Street, St. James's, S.W.1,

6, ua NIAC.
LONDON, 8.W.1 (Victoria 2081
SALIBRURY (2467-2468)

SURREY
For Bale with Vacant Possession
AN ATTRACTIVE RESIDENCE
In @ rural setting, 3 miler south-west of
Dorking.
Elght bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 4 reception
rooms, Main electricity and water. Two
good Cottages, Double garage. Charming
ganiens with two tennis courts, etc.

6 ACRES

Price £10,000 Freehold.
RAWLENCE & SQUAREY,

Place, London, 3.W.). Phone:
Victoria 2081.

a Reg

164, BROMPTON ROAD,
LONDON, 8.Ww.3

In village 24 tniles sea with
views to Downs.

Five bedrooma, 2 hatha,
4 reception.

Garage, stables
MAIN ELECTRIC LIGHT
AND WATER.

Attractive
tield, 2
FOR SALE
FREEHOLD
(C.53,123)

grounds = and
ACRES in all

BOADERG OF SOMERSET, WILTS
AND DORSET = Fresh In the Market
FOR SALE FREEHOLD
RESIDENTIAL ESTATE WITH
CHARMING PERIOD HOUSE contain.
ing many unusual features, Seven rinelpal

and 6 secondary bedrooms, 3 bat

4 reception rooms. Delightful parkland,

charming old gardens. Garages, stabling.

Parmery, Four cottages, eto,, the whole in

a ring fence and embracing about

163 ACRES out let, the remaiuder with
EARLY POSSESSION

Main water. Contral eating. Own
glectric eRe plant.
Apply: RAWLEN: & SQUAREY,
Salisbury. Phone: 2467/8,

BENTALL, HORSLEY & BALDRY

FRINTON-ON-SEA

Facing the sa and occupying one of the nicest positions in this much-sought-nfter reaidential K ssex coast town.

1947

RURAL POSITION

A PLEASING OLD
HOUSE IN EXCELLENT
CONDITION

Five bedrooms, 2 dres#ng
rooms, 2 bathrooms, 3
reception rooms,

CENTRAL HEATING.
MAIN 8ERVICES.

Garage, Cottage. Gardens,
About 1%, ACRES
FREEHOLD £9,000

Apply: HAMPTON & SONS

Office
SON, 6

Irlington Street, St. James's,

Fralt and vegetable gardens and lawns about

IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.
Agents; Mesere, TOMKINS HOMER & LEY, The Hetate

Frinton-on-Sea ne Frinton 19), or HA.
6, Arlington Street,

RURAL ESSEX

1% ACRES
MAIN SERVICES.
To be Sold.

IPTON AND
, St, James, 3.7.1. (46,461)

PICTURESQUE SMALL 16th-CENTURY RESIDENCE

Three reception rooms, &
bed and vbuing rooms,
bathroom, All main ser-
viers. Centra} heating.

Garage, Heveral useful
shed. Lovely gardens,
Good orchard 5 ACRES
planted 3-4 years old a]
trees of best varicties,
6% ACRES arable.

IN ALL ABOUT
16 ACRES

FREEHOLD £13,000

Apply: HAMPTON & SONS 6, Arlington Street, St. James's, S.W.1,
BRANCH OFFICES | WIMBLEDON COMMON. 8.W.19 (Tel.1 WIM. 0081) & BISHOP'S @TORTFORD (Tel. 243)

RAWLENCE & SQUAREY, rsu.

SOUTH HANTS

‘TO BE LET UNFURNISHED AT £250
pa. ON LEASE

On the borders of the New Forest, 7 miles
Strom Bournemouth,

ATTAACTIVE RESIDENCE
Thirteen bed and dreasing roa boudoir,
4 bathrooms, 5 rece) Eee you Sums
room. Garages and wabling Four
Main water and electricity, Noted
and five parkland, tn all 19 At

iy ole Agente: RAWLENCE AND
saUke Rownhams Mount,

ry
eharapyon. hone: Mowahane toe

STRATFORD-ON-AVON
Splendid Mixed Farm, 40 ACRES, half

Very nice house, Beapte | buildings, Beveral

POSSESSION WZEHOLD £8,000

GREATEST BARGAIN ON OFFER
WITHOUT PARALLEL
Herta, about 60 miles London.
Tithe-frea Market Garden Farm,
ACRES, rich loamy coil. 8
ee bused

16
did house,

death.
Executora must ae at omen. Exceptions!
Absolute anip at ‘only. £2,508 Freehold.

MOVIL AND NEAR
ARKFORD
Rich tithe-free Dalry Farm suitable T.T.,

188 ACRES, mostly pasture; stream
water also Co.'s mains, Superior farm
house, splendid buildings.

POSSESSION FREZHOLD £5,000

CHESHIRE

Aa one of the beat Farms.

Farm. 1908 ACRES.
Blectricity, bath,

{Excellent buildings,
ith sole reason sale,

FREEHOLD £7,000

Known locals;
Tithe-free
Splendid farmhouse,
unfalling water.
tying 40. Il) heal
POSSESSION

DERBY
One of the best Dairy Farms in the market,
suitable pedigree herd. 236 ACRES rich
8s cn limestone.

Superior residence, all services, Modern
equipped bulldings, tying 54. Ti! health
only reason for sale.
POSSESSION PREEHOLD £11,080

W. SUSSEX
Attractive | small Dairy Farm, 30 ACRES

over further 40 acrea)_
Fascinating teen Gth-century residence full of

oak—a picture. ie water, electricity.
Ample buildings.
POSSESSION § Freshold only £4,000

Modernised, in first-class order throughout,

(45,762)

SHERBORNKE, DORSET (66)
ROWNHAMS ‘MOUNT, Nuraling
SOUTHAMPTON (Bownhams 236 i]
HAMPSHIRE
With Yah in the River Teat.
To be infurnished or Partly
Burnisnedy on Lease

A FINE OLD TUDOR RESIDENCE
Seven miles from oceey 3 binoipal and
& secondary Dedrocnisy bathrooms, 4

rooeption Own electric light.
Central heating,” basins in & bedrooms,

Tennis “court Walled “sxraen, fe, 6

Rent £208 per annum, pias x08 108 p.a.
ly Bole we shia BAWEENGE, om AND
seBhnny, Salisbury. Phone 2407/8,

Keneington
o1ss-3

a SRRS

ENTLEMAN 13 RESIDENTIAL
FARMING. ESTATE nearty 560 ACR:
Dalry and Mixed Farm eminently suitable

od
CHARMING Fl
ALL MAIN SERVICES,
BAILIPES Fouse. eRe, GOTTAGHS,
od eorhoutes ty
50, all Morand clseeriaite
installed. rg otal a and
, porting

IMMmEOIATS POUSEESION
FREEHOLD ONLY £18,000

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 28, 1947 539

OSBORN & MERCER

MEMBERS OF THE CHARTERED SURVEYORS

HANTS.

Rerkshirs, in a quiet
conveniont reach of of Wokinghare, Winchpd and Racin Bacingsote

AN ATTRACTIVE MODERN HOUSE
approached by a carriage drive and containing
Two reception rooms, ¢ bedrvome, bathroom,
Main? water and gas, Blectricty available. Garage.
EXCELLENT MODERN COTTAGE (at present let)

Matured gardens with lawna, Bower: and vogstabie gardens,
small a1 |, in all

asouT 1 ACRE
FOR SALE FREEHOLD WITH VACANT POSSES
SiON OF THE HOUSE AND GARDENS

Agents: OSBORN & MERCER, as above,

EAST DEVON

ine Lage et aboue ate Lonel saath cine
in splentid povition per we Sttuate on the borders o}

A patavaut: Residence of the piers
Perlad

Hall, 3 reception, billlards room, 12 bedroom, 2 bate
Oun al ity. Excellent water supply. Central heating ‘

Stabling for 5. Garage.
Well laid out gardens with lewns, tennia courts, walled

extending to
ABOUT 5 ACRES
FOR SALE FREEHOLD
It may be possible to purchase additional land up to 150 acres.
Agente: OSBORN & MERCHR, as above. (17,807)

3, MOUNT ST.,
LONDON, W.1

AMERSHAM

Situate in one of the deat residential parts af the district, within
@ fow minutes’ walk of the shops end station.

A DELIGHTFUL BRICK-BUILT MODERN
RESIDENCE

with hali, 2 reception, sun room, 4 bedrooms, bathroom
All main services.

Kitoben garden, vinery, peach houses, etc., the whole Charming garden exceptionally well maintalaed and
stocked, in all

ABOUT 4 ACRE
POR SALE FREEHOLD £7,000

: OBHORN & MERCKR, as above. (17,831)

RALPH PAY & TAYLOR

8b, ALBEMARLE 8T.,
PICCADILLY, Wt

AND AUCTIONEERS INSTITUTES

IN THE HEART OF EXMOOR
Gooupying @ unique situation, fustion, facing south and commanding

The exeeptionaily at acirective Property
VINSFORD GLEBE. NEAR MINEHEAD

(M.2,471)

Three reception rooms, 10 bedrooms. 4 bathrooma, attic

rooms,
COTTAGE FARMBUILDINGS
Range of stabling and garages.
Delfghtful ornamental gardens, packfike preunde,
tennis court, OUT’ pasture, etc, in all
ABOUT ‘60 ACRES

FOR SALE FREEHOLD

Joint Agents: OSBORN & MERCKR, as above, and

Messrs, C) ANIN & THOMAB, 1, Hench treet, Minehead,
AMET se

Garage.

Grosvenor
1038-33

ONE OF THE STATELY HOMES OF ENGLAND
of Great Historical Interest and Antiquity

DORSET
6 miles from Dorchester, 12 miles Weymouth, 23 miles” Bournemouth.
XVth-Century Domain of rare architectural beauty in a wonderful
state of preservation,
sympathetically Frwy and modernised whilst retulning all its origina medieval
features. Magnificent Nnonfold and other panolling.

Banqueting hall, euperb orlel and gallery, great hall, 4 reception rooms, 10‘principal
bed, 9 bath and Secondary sccommodation. | Central heating. Hlectrie ight,
tabling, garago, 5 cottages,
Lovely old-world gardens and grounds in beautiful maturity.
Walled kitohen and fruit gardens.
Home farm with rich pasture and water meadows.
farmhouses and 2 cottages.
Two miles of trout fishing.

280 ACRES FREEHOLD FOR SALE
* Further particulars apply owner’s Agents: RALPH Pay & TaYLor, as aboye.

F. L. MERCER & CO.

SACKVILLE HOUSE, 40, PICCADILLY. W.1

SURREY—FAVOURITE COBHAM DISTRICT
17 miles London.
A VERY WELL FITTED COUNTRY HOUSE
Panelled lounge hall, 3 reception rooms, ay principal bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, staff
CENTHAL HEATING. 3 MAIN SERVICES.
Garage. Superior cottage.
FOR SALE WITH 6 ACRES
Agente: F, 1. Mepcur & C0., Sackvillo House, 40, Piccadilly, W.1. Tel.; Regent 2481.
ee

AT A BARGAIN PRICE—£5,250 WITH NEARLY 8 ACRES
SURREY HILLS 18 MILES LONDON

WELL PLANNED fe Lagpek pri iage’
600 ft, above sea with fine views, lodge entrance.

Six principal bedrooms (4 with fitted basing), 2 ‘paths, 4 attic bedrooms, 3 reception
rooms (2 panelied). All main services. Central heating. Septic tank drainage.
Garages, tabling with 8 rooms over. Katablished gardena, pasture and woodland,

NEARLY 8 ACRES
Possession of house, stabling and garage on completion.

F. 1, Mxecen & Co., Sackvijle House, 40, Piccadilly, W.1, Tel.: Regent 2651.

WELL DESIGNED BUNGALOW AND 5 ACRES

SURREY AND SUSSEX BORDERS,
BETWEEN GUILDFORD AND HORSHAM

Secluded position on high ground with views over wooded
country.

COLONIAL TYPE MESIDENCE

on one level only. As easy to run as London flat. Two
reception, 8 bedrooms, bath

CENTRAL HEATING. MAINS.

‘Two garages, stabling. Tennis court, orchard, paddock.
25,750

‘L, MERcun & Oo., as above,

WORCESTERSHIRE

ran aR way. ano Pr tras or naaal eh voy ioe
Occupying a delightful ion on outs! a ureaque views lawold
patie oe ain, and within 2 hours Finan by express, g
epetrrcadead eniO HOUSE
of considerable character.
Lounge hall, 4 reception
Tooma, § pfineipal bed-
roumas, ¢# bathrooms.
Self-contained servants’ wing
compertible into fiat.

Central beating. Fitted
wash basins in OE.

Two superior
Two garages, Mal ing.
Squash rackets court.
Gardens with small lake,
stone circular dovecot,
orchard and spinney. ‘
6% ACRES. FOR SALE FREEHOLD. VACANT POSSESSION.
Agents: F. L. Muncen & Co., Sackville House, 40. Piccadilly, W.1, Tel.: Regent 2481.

prouin, uutalde bedroom

540 COUNTRY LIFE-—-MARCH 28, 1947

GEORGE TROLLOPE & SON

25, MOUNT ST., GROSVENOR 5Q., W.1

Greevener 1863
(4 Himes)

WEALD OF KENT

About 8 eile fom the unt toon hpproachad by a drice. NEAR GUILDFORD

iG as Rt Practically adjoining village green on bus route,

COMFORTASLE COUNTRY RESIDENCE
WITH IMMEDIATE POSEESSION
Seven bed, 2 bath, 3 ree. rooms.
MAIN SERVICES. CENTRAI HEATING.

Garages and varivus buildings. Secluded gardena and

paddock.
Fine onk'pe ait hall, 3 reo, and aun 7 bed,, & baths.
Maln el fo light, t, gas and water, modern drainage, central 2) ACREB £6,000 FREEHOLD jon
beatae ee and scabting. wo cotteaet, Fourteen bed tee 2nd floor not used), 4 bath, 3 rec.,
Boautiiully “ial "out ferrnced § ene, ee gtdocks and | cseonue TROLLUPE & SUNS, 25, Mount Btrect, London, | baliroum, Hlectric light, Central heating. Stabling, garage. garage.
For Gale Freshotd with Vacant ton. Wr. (1119) | Woods, park, Inke, rough shooting

Inspected and confidently recommended by the Sole Agents: 0 p..).
Guoace ‘TROLLOFE & SONS, a4 abOVe. 2002) GORGE TROLLOPE & Sons. (5895)

BL Dene WILLIAM WILLETT LTD. Branches

SLOANE SQUARE, 8.W.1

126 pa. Pi fi a
ame ral 080.

"T RESIDDER &CO. .77,South Audley St., W.1

Grosvenor 2861, Telegrams: ‘‘Cornishmen, London.”

KENTSUSSEX BORDERS, 3 wullen Tunbridge Wells (bus service, pastes) LNCS ERNISED, CELIOTTFUL OLD FARMHOUSE, teens noth ie "rural
CHARMING CHARACTER Ri NCE, 4 reception, 3 bath., 10-12 bed lar surroundl Four bedrooms, bathroom, 2 reception rooms. Large entrance loun,

dressing rooms. Central heating, al main xervices. Telephone. Garage for 3.
Chauffeur’ * tint, gardener’s bungalow, oast house, Delightful grounds over 3 2 ACRES,
nicely timbered. Hard tonnis court, kitchen and fruit garden, etc. &42,000 ign
HOLD. Strongly recommended. - TeesODER & Co,, 77, South Audley Street, W.1
(22872)

with deep inglenook. Main services. Matured arden, PRICE £5,500 FAREHOLD.
wWTLLIAM ILLETY, Ltp., 62, Chureh Road, Hove. Hove 4065,

KAR CLAYGATE, SURREY. A BEAUTIFULLY FITTED MODERN
RESIDENCE In country surroundings situated in well-timbered grounds of
1 acre. Five bedrooms fitted basins, 2 bathrooms, large lounge, dining room, wi tad
maids’ sitting room, kitcbon and offices, Central heating throughout. Garage (heated).
Main services. £8,766 including various fittings.— WILLIAM WILLETT, LTD., as above.

OREHAM WOOD, HE DETACHE! MODERN RESIDENCE
In a @ecluded position. Five Te bsdruomer 2 bathrooms, 2 reenption rooms, usual
offices, ate. {2 floors only). a eeu in all rooms, Main services, Large garage.
GARDEN OF j ACR ,780 FRERHOLD. POXSESSION ON COMPLETION.
WILLIAM WILLETT, itp aK above,

BERKE-WINDSOR AREA
PINE OLD CHARACTER COUNTRY RESIDENCE, 10 bed, 4 bati., 4 reception.
AL main services, Telephone, Central heating. ‘Stabling, garage. ©
Inexpensive gardens, Hard tennis court. Private backwater with boathouac.
ardon and paddeck, nea: ly 3 roeheay £12,800 FREEHOLD, — TRESIDUER & ('0.,
77, South Audley Street, W.1. (908

OXON BrAKs BORDERS. ATTRACTIVE SMALL ESTATE, NEARLY
$00 ACREG, MODERN BIDENCE, 14 bed., 5 bath,, 4 reception, electric
light, central heating. Garages, stabling. Flat, 6 cottages, farmhouse and farm bulidiny
a pleasure gardens, grass, arable and woodlands. TEMPTING PRICE.
D.--TrEppRE & Co., 77, Bouth Audley Street, W.1. (22203)

22,000 FREEHOLD. 16 ACRES
oxoneucne a BORDERS 6} miles Princes Risborough. ATTRACTIVE
STONE-BUIL’ mNCK. Lounge hall, 4 reception, 3-5 bath., 6-11 bed.,
aocording to meter Berries 18 formed out of proporty. Main eleetrielty, central
heating, Garoges xnd stabling. Well-timbornd grounds, igflichen garden, orchard and
meadow.—TrEsippKR & Co., 77, South Audley Strevt, . (258)

Hove. Palmeira Avenuc gS, order of Executors), Suitable for doctor, A WELL-

BUILT REO-SRICK NON-BABEMENT HOUSE. Bit bee bedrooms, 2 ce
rooms, 3 reception rooms, All conventences. Good ordet, EHOLD.--
Sole Agents: WILLIAM WILLETT, LTD., 52, Church Road, Hove. Nove Oss

SURREY HILLS. ATTRACTIVE MODERN RESIDENCE with short carriage
drive and grounds of 18 acres. Five bedrooms fitted basing, bathroom, 3 receptlon
rooms, kitchen, ete, Cottage of 3 rooms, etc. Central heating. Main services, Garage.

FREEHOLD. IMMEDIATE POSSESSION, Wiiian WILLETT, Lrp., as

wiles

LOFTS & WARNER

41, BERKELEY SQ., LONDON, W.1.) Gro. 3056

Preliminary Announcenent.

HAMPSHIRE HERTFORDSHIRE
A very fine Residential property between Winchester and Southampton. Daily reach of landon,
“THE COURT” OTTERBOURNE A CHARMING MODERN RESIDENCE

having Jounge hall, 6 reeeption, 16 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms. adjofning Hudaall Common,

kvery modern canvenience and comfort including electric
fight, central heating, Company's water and gas.

BUNGALOW AND A PAIR OF COTTAGES

Having 3 reception, bathroom and 5 bedrooms,
Uinaal offices.
Main electricity aud water. Central heating.
Garage. Stabling. Groom's Cottage. Garage. Stabling.

Lovely gardens with specimen and timber trees In greut Kitchen garden. Orchard.
variety.

In alt about 30 ACRES in all about 3 ACRES
Yachting. Fishing. Golf. All easily available. FREEHOLD PRICE £6,500

FOR SALE privately or by Auction at later date
Apply Auctioneers: Lorte & WARNER, 41, Berkeloy Square, W.1 (Gro. 8956), or E. C. WALL & Co., 85, Bruton St., W.1.

Agents: LOFTS & WARNER, 41, Berkeley Square, W.1
(Gro, 3056),

certs A. T. UNDERWOOD & CO.
THREE BRIDGES, SUSSEX
suserx a

BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY ESTATE and FARMS In the GREAT
WESTERN GOLD-PRODUCING AREA of the TRANSVAAL
THIS PROPERTY OF OVER 1,013 MORGEN (APPROX. 2,140 ACRES)
CONSISTS OF THREE ADJOINING FARMS
Situate between Johannesburg and Potchefetroom on the main railway line to Cape Town,
lean than one mile from Boskop Station and bounded on the weat by the never-failing
Mooi River which irrigates 114 ACRES af good soti by gravitation,
The road between Johannesburg and Potchefstroom through the fnining area of Weat.
Wits, Hiyvooruitaicht, Dricfonteln, ete., passes Over the property and is nearly all
tarred. There is an excellent traln service and freah ilk is conveyed to Johannesburg
twice daily In speciai cooling trucks.
Tinprovements include:—

FOUR DWELLINGS, one of which with 4 garages could not be bullt to-day under
£4,000 (aap of main eatead will be forwarded op application), workroom, regis-
tered cow stable for 54 cows, new milkroom of 5 apartments built pecordie to latest,
requirements of Johannesburg Municipality, with water laid on, food mixing room,
large store for grain and lucerne, kraais, large dam in veld, also borehold with new
windmill for watering stock, The propert: ry RVO , is completely fenced
and cam with Iron standards and * ro wit wire, has ‘an excellent water jfupaly, and is
very thy for man and beast. No malaria. No horse-sickness in veld.

a fs @ large orchard and MPOrOK. 200 rose: Sree i besides antes gon Ww pines and aiimons.

large and
lofty rooms of # Iatapneal
to retired Polonia ar
invalid. Hall, lounge 20 ft.
x 20 ft. (radiator), bedroom
20 ft. x 20M. (wash basin),
2 or 3 other bedrooms,
bathroom. Co.s' water, gan
and electricity. (Garage,

Gardens of % ACR

PRICE
FREEHOLD £3,300
Hole Agents: A. T. UNDERWOOD & Uv. (Ref. 1411)

BALCOMBE, GUGSEX. Bpls igned MOGERN HOUSE with oak floors
and woodwork and many desirable features Cloakroom, 2 reception rooms 17 ft. x

rooms property is offered as concern with 200 head of

sarage Main services, NEARLY t ACHE. PREEAOLD £5008 Tier sat cattle of hich 66 are dairy stock with two pedigreed Fetcslan bulls: Implernents

Sunany, | WEIGATE ANG EAGT GRIN SrEAD Warmt include ‘moerne press, forage press, lange buckwaggon, trolley on rubber tyres, ploughs
MODERN 2 reception, 8 bedrooms and bathroom. Part central hei ba harrows, mowing machines, etc.

‘THE PROPERTY 18 FAREHOLO AND THERE ARE NO LAND TAXES

ing.
AGL aaies. ine? rage, Outbuildings. With % AORE garden, FREE- Minerals are under option at resent a the Ue Corporetion, Ltd, Drilling operations
<- BILLINGBHUNGT.—Heawlitully appoluted and situated for gold are being carried on in the district. AU the owners mineral rights, over hale on
LABOUR-SAVING COUNTRY HOUSE. Four reception rooms, 5 bed and whole property are sxmpemimnauner tote alenas ating owing too!

wring roomy fooms and 2 bathrooma, Main water and electricity, Garage. Grounds of
oo CREB. FREEHOLD £7,900. (Ref. 7357)

BD. DURIE, BALLANTRAE, ?.0., BOSKOP, TRANSVAAL.

COUNL..Y Lirte-—MARCH 28, 1947 541

CURTIS & HENSON

WILTSHIRE
Near Malmeabiiry. KENT

5, MOUNT ST..
LONDON, W.1

. BUCKS

1} miles from Beaconsfield Railway Station. 460 ft. above
sen level.

PICTURESQUE MODERN TUDOR
STYLE RESIDENCE

Faces south. Leaded casement windows. Four reception
rooms, bNMard reum, 5 large and 6 anal bedrooms,
2 bathrooms,

Garage for 3 cars, Two cottages.

EXCELLENT CENTRAL HEATING THROUGHOUT,
MAIN WATER, GAS AND ELECTRICITY.

Kitchen garden, tennls lawn, rose garden, meaduw and

FOR SALE FREEHOLD

Grosvenor 3139 (3 Hane)
Botablished 1676

A GHARMING HOUSE
with attractive surroundings, Nine bedrooms, 2 bath:
rooms, 3 rreeption rooms, servante’ hall, kitchen and
setiltery, cOnservatory.

Stable with flat over comprising 2 beds, sitting room,
Kitehon and scullery,

Ground floor: 2 loose boxea, tuartiess room and double
warnge.

Hrick and tiled lodge,

A MODERN RESIDENCE in the best part of the ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER, GAS AND WATER
Duke of Beaufort’s Hunt.
orchard. 10 hedroome; 4 bathrooms,
Garages and oxtensive stabil
IN ALL ABOUT 8 ACRES Grounds, Pasture and arable
ABOUT 100 ACHES
FOR SALE FREEHOLD

SERVICES ARE INSTALLED,

Cesspool drainage. Lovely gardens, paddock and woodiand
extending to approximately 1@ ACRES.

FOR SALE FREEHOLD

Four reception rooms.

1 aatle from fishing in the River Avon, Golf and hunting:

Agente: Curtis & HENSON, 6, Mount Street, London, Wil

NORTH SHROPSHIRE

Wem 4 miles, Shrewsbury 16 miles, Cheater 29 miles.
THE WOODLANDS EGTATE, WEM
ineinding
A CHARMING FULLY MODERNISED COUNTRY RESIDENCE
with § bed and dressing rooms, 2 baths, 3 reception and bilfiards rooms, compact
dumostle offices, electricity, VACANT POSSESSION.

THREK FIRST: ASS DATRY AND MIXED FARMS from @0 te 164 ACRES
FIVE EXCK T SMALL HOLDINGS, COTTAGKS and ACCOMMODATION
LAND in all about aAcRES

Producing a flent Aol, gatual and estimated, af £1,497 per annum.

For eale by Public Auction (uniees previously sold by private treaty) in 88 Lots

by
H. COLEMAN & Co.
in conjunction with @. M. LOWE, at THE WHITE HORSE HOTEL, WEM, on
THURSDAY, APALL 24, 1947, 11 Dm.
Tlustrated particulars and plan (2/6 per copy) from the Solicitors: Messrs, MINSHALL,
Pron & Co., Oawestry, Salop (Tel.: Oswestry 20), or the Auctioneers: Mosare. H-

COLEMAN & Co., Welllagton, Salop (Tel.: Wellington 356), and Mr, B. M. Lowe,
FAA.S., Richland Farm, Bodenham, Hereford (Tel.: Burley Gate 220).

Particulars from; Cortis & HRNBON, 5, Mount Street, W.
(Gro, 3131). (Gro, 3181). (10,837)

Agents: Curtin & leave: aout Street, London, Wil
re :

COTSWOLDS

SHU ft. above nea level, commanding magnificent views, 2 miles from Stroud with GW.
lation (London 2 howra).

‘The fine sanoswuin: and gabled Country Residenos known as
STANLEY HALL, SELSLEY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Containing lounge hall,
thakroom, 3 reeeptlon
rooms, billiard] rooms, 4
bed and dyessing-rooms and
% bathrooms, 3 secondary
headrooms, Main electric

sus and water. Gardener's
edttage and outbulldlngs,

Delightful amt well-tnain-

taitied grounds, orcharding
and pasture land, inaliabout

11 ACR

PRICE FRERHOLD £6,000 FOR QUICK SALK
OR AUCTION MAY, 1647

DAVIS, CHAMPION & PAYNE,

Est. 1772 STROUD, GLOS. Tel.: 675/6

oxronp JAMES STYLES & WHITLOCK

seor'e OXFORD AND CHIPPING NORTON

Fresh in the Mucket.

BETWEEN BANBURY AND OXFORD

Hunting with the Heythrop and the Birester Hounds.
AN EXCEPTIONALLY CHARMING AND WELL-DESIQNED COTSWOLD-STYLE STONR-BUILT HOUGE OF CHARACTER

oocupy tag a secluded positien, on high ground, on the outskirts of the village, enjoying pleasing country views,
Entrance hall, v sitting rooms, 0 bedron 2 bathrevis, inodern domestic offices. Main electric light and pewer, Good water supply, Centra) heating throughout, Telephone,

Double garage and modern stubling for three,

Charming garden, smalf orehard and twe good paddock! on

IN ALL ABOUT FIVE ACRES. FOR SALE FREEHOLD, WITH VACANT POSSESSION WPON COMPLETION

Strongly tecommended by JAMES STYERS & WHITLOCK, Oxford,

NORTH COTSWOLDS
Ntow-on-the- Wold 24 miles,
WELL-BUILT MODERN HOUSE
Three sitting rons, G6 bedroams, 2 bathrooms, Main electete ight Hiain water supply,

central heating. Telephone. nd farm buildings. Small garden, together with
tered meadowland,

tN ALL ABOUT 9 ACRES
PRICE FREEHOLD : £5,500. VACANT POSSESSION

Apply: Jamis StyLEs d& Walthocg, Oxford.

AT MODEST RESERVE TO ENSURE SALE.
GERRARDS CROSS, BUCKS
“WYBURN," AUSTENWOOD COMMON, A FINE MODERN DETACHED

Facing Common, near golf links and only half mile of station and shops.
Contains 2 rec., h-6 be bathroom, excellent domestic offices, Carage. Delightful
arden of 1 acre with trnnis court.
FULL CENTRAL HEATING. BASINS IN BEDROOMS, FIRST-CLASS STATE
OF HEPAIR, ALL SERVICKS. VACANT POSSESSI
AUCTION at Ethorpe Matel, Gerrards Cross, on Friday, April 11, 1947.
Detalk rtlculars and Conditions of Sale from Solicitors: Dawson & Co., 2, New
Square, Linoolns inn, London, W.(.2, of from the Auctioneera: Messrs. HETHERINGTON
AND SHORETT, ¥.4.1., Estate Office, Gerrards Cross (Tel. 2004), and at London. W.5,

TO BE SOLD WITH LOW RESERVE.
GERRARDS CROSS, BUCKS

“FAWLEY COTTAGE,” CURES wt hy 4 AVENUE, DELIGHTFUL COTTAGE-
orven HED PROPERTY
In quiet position adjoining Seeman par tennis club, yet only 2 mile of station.
Contains 2 rec., 4 beds. (2 ber wash basins), bethroom, kitchen, garage in pretty

ALL SERV! 1CES AND mare DRAINAGE, RE-DECORATED, PARTIAL
ENTRAL HEATING. VACANT POSSESSION.
mhtlerion at Ethorpe Hotel, Gerrarde Cross, on Priday, April 11, 1947.
Detailed partioulars and Gouditions of Sale from Aolicitors, WALTER C. HETHEAINOTON,
27, Bond Street, Ealing, W.6, or of the Auctioneers: Messrs.
HETHERINGTON & SECRETT, F.A!.
Katate Offoos, Gerrards Cros (Tel.:; 2004), and at London, W.5.

WILTSHIRE

Hunting with the V.W.H., the Cricklads and the Beaufort Packs,

CHARMING OLD PERIOD HOUSE
(CIRCA 1880)

Lounge hall, 3 sitting rooms, & bed and dressing rooms, bathroom, AL main services,
Telephone. ' Gurage, wtabling and small farmery.” Gardens and 2 paddnckr,

iN ALL ABOUT & ACRES
FOR SALE FREEHOLD, WITH VACANT POSSESSION

Apply; JaAMER STYLER & WiThock, Oxford,

aus RIPPON, BOSWELL & CO. +11

EXETER

CORN WALL

Secluded rural environment,
GENUINE QUEEN ANNE RESIDENCE

4 reception rooms, 9 bed-
rooms, 3 bathrooms.

Electric Light.
Central Heating.
Garage and Flat.

LODGE, FARMERY,
Excellent Gardens.

Profuston flowering shruba,
arable Pasture and Wood-
lends,

SO ACRES ONLY £9,500
Burroy, Boawaih & €0,, F.A.1., Exeter,

#3, MOUNT 8T.,
GROBVENOR 8Q.. LONDON, W.1

GUILDFORD 3 MILES
Dalightfut position, olose to bus route.

Beautifully ap;
In first-rate order,
main services.

nera, Garage.

66,000 WITH 1% ACRES
Sole‘Agents: Witson & Co., 28, Mount Street, W.1.

upted small modern House of churacter
Four beds, bathroom, 3 reception, All
garden luld out by

COUNTRY LIFE--~MARCH 28,

1947

WILSON & CO.

jandseapo

CLASSIFIED PROPERTIES

LOVELIEST SPOT ON

t ordor and tastefully appointed. La:
n first-rate or: tastefully spol

lounge, 3
‘and basins), 2 _

reception rooms opening to log,
athrooms, maids sitting room. Main

SOUTH DEVON COAST

Thurtstone Sands, near Kingehridge. Adjoining the beach and golf links with glorious sea views.

i bedrooms (with fitted

for é cars with 3 rooms and bathroom vances

GROUNDS OF 1% ACRES, ALSO FORESHORK,
‘The whole of the modern furniture oan be purchased.

PAKEHOLD £6,250

Sole Agents: WIL8ON & Co., 23, Mount Street, W.T

Ql per line, (Min. 3 Hines.) Bow fee 1/6.

AUCTION

TO LET

FOR SALE

AGENTS

SHROPSHIRE
THE a oan Ana ESTATE,

Fine modarnlect wrldenes, Hall, 4 reception
roome, 20 principal and other 5
bathrooms; offices with “Aga Oookert.
Central heating, own e.l. plant, exoollent
waar 7 Dignitied, gardens and grounds, lodges

scttages, Four dairy and stock farms,

bo holdings, scoommodation lands,
woodlands, eto. In sli 1,083 ACRES,
Beet £1,100 anum, approx, Vacant

of hall sud grounds. For sale by
Scan on Tuesday, y 20, 1947. Jotat

“CHAMBRALAINE c SRO T HERS AND

rewsbury (and a f Cheltenham). LEONARD
#. Davies. Ludlow. Particulars and plans, in
Preparation, from the auctioneers.

WANTED

OURNEMOUTH within 380 mile. Un-
furnished Howse or Bungalow, 6 rooms

rden. Rent or loase, 3-4 years.—~LaRRy,
Osborne Road, Romford.

Bucs, SURAEY Of HANTS. win
Gentleman let unfurnished cotta

Ydge to inte head gardencr and wife at
rental, Willing te work tn garden, Wanted
tn Mareh.—Dox 234. i
GHARING GROES 10 TO fs MILES.
Bite not less 2-10 acros with or without
mansion on outskirta smail country town.
Near open space desirable but not Teolated.
Required for erection homes for aged gentle-
folk. Maln services, water, electricity, eto.
easential.—Hox 240.
MALDEN DISTRICT. _Beel-
dence of character required for private
eocupation with not more than 60 acres. Nine
‘bed. and 8-4 bathrooms. Yachting and boat-
ing within easy reach.—Pleane send particulars
to “Sur,” c/o JOHN D. Woon & Co., 23,
Berkeley Square, Loudon, W.1. Mnyfair 6341.
GSsEX,
REASONABLE REACH LONDON.
Country House, 3 reception, 4 to 7 bedrooms,
and Cottage, or a Uentieman's Farm up to
acros.—Box 188,
NGSTHERN COUNTING. Required,
Mansion capable of accommodati:
250, “a ne pe mulling tausat be in good order an
in the N ie premises are required in
1948 for an existing first-class Church of
England ding school for girls, The
Governing Body would be willing to take a
Jease for « long term or to purchase,—Com-
munications will, if desired, be treated ax con-
fidential and should be adurossod to Measra,
Newman & OND, Solicitors, Barnsley,
Yorkshire.

PORTSMOUTH OR WEAR BY ond on
‘bus route. Unfurnished House or Flat

( bedrooms) urgently wal wanted d by 20 Cote le with
hree achool-age childre: ats.

prebent: country home wanted” ty. owner.—
usu, 5, » High Street, Southwick, Fareham,

WEST _ SUSSEX" “HANTS BORDER.
Suseox-type Gountey House or Farraliouse

pot more than six bedrooms; 100-150 acres
with buildings suitable for attested od dairy herd.
Mains services, One cottage.

Vacant possession the whoa ee mw
£12,000 <tvelve the Ehousand) | gat rite full tbat

ticulare with photos.
TO LET

Direct aosess” to. ‘beache

Joungs, 4 bedrooms,

Garage. April to ’ Sentemivor ow, Pw.
MuuEe, 280, Ashley Road, Parketone, Dorset.
Chuan Rann, ishh ge to let, mat

pear art beet Seas ‘4
8 rood ming, kitohen

hath the eh ling.
boathonse and oats egarsen. wand
poaltion and views. Exeellen t ‘Cortina recently

redecorated, Not
might

maid remain, oiety Box

“venience, situated

10. GALWAY. To Lot, Modern Bui
furnished for six on Lough Corrib. ook.
lent lough and river fishing (famous Iiack
River cloge by). Superb view of Connemara
Mountains. by month or longer. Two boats
and boatman,—Box 253,

ONDON. Charming newly decorated fur-
nished Flat; apacious panelled rooms ; sult-
able 2 E people: c.h.w. Exclusive Square, access

gardens. $,W,7,_ £12/12/- weekly. —Hox 264.
Sram FORD, near and on border of North-
amptonsbire and within easy goress of
Peterborough. To Let, detached Howse, 3
foreption rooms and lounge hall, 7 bedrooms,
dathrooma and usual domestic offices. Mains
wator and electricity. Might be let partially fur-

nished.—Further partles. from G. 1. MuTTzR,
Burghley Estate Office, Stamford, Lincs.
FOR SALE

East SUFFOLK. For sale. Old Farm
House In village, one milo matn line (Hales-
worth); 6 bedrooma (3 fitted basins), bath-
room, W.c., 3 sitting rooms, main electricity,
telephone,’ Aga cooker, Central heating: 3
aragea; barn and goud stables; 2 acres
ion. 4 acre field. Price, £7,000,—Hox 237.
BUSSEX. Froehold land. 1. Convertiblo*
* puildings for dwelling. Good Investment.
Suitable small holding, veg., poultry, riding
school. £1,000.—J. Woopnams & SON, Battle,
EAS ic. icturesgue Resi ence,
outskirts Market Town. 8 bed.,
bath., kitchen, etc. with older portion 4 bed,
2rec., bath., kitohen ete. Lodge Cottage, pretty
grounds, farm builiings, orchard and '3
dooks, in af] 11 acres. Main services. Possession.
£7,600. A. Burransiaw & Sox, Haileharn.
VON, NEAR jUDLEION
SALTRATON, afew ininutes’ walk from
if Inka, Most attractive modern Country
idence, in excellent order, 4 beds, dressing
room, bath., 2 rec., cloakroom, kitchen (Aga
Cookér), servant's bedroom and bathroom.
Secluded in its own delightful eve DP ¥zioe
£7,600 inchides a superior c
bungalow realdence), 2 beds., orn | 2 re.
kitchen, garage, enclosed garden. —E. HaYns,
4, Johnson's Place, Exmouth, Devon.

EATS,
H 5 miles St. Albans.

Country
House in

land. Gompletely
modernised, Three double ber
bathroom (bh. and c.). 2 reception rooms, oui:
fast room, detached studlo or bedroom, Range
of good buildings. Garden and 10 acres of
paddock and woodland. £6,000 freehold.—
Agents: CONNELL < SILESTONE, 32, Victoria
Strect, At. Albans. Tel.: 5864

LOUGHTON, A ae ly
modern detached residence, in excellent
condition and containing every m oon:
in a favourite resisential
area, 5 minutes from station and shops.
Acoommodation comprises vestibule, large
hall, cloakroom, lounge, dining room, kitchen,
‘ bedrooms, well appolnted bathroom, gar
age, pleasai tden, Price, £5,400 freshold.
--FAWDRY 3 VANS, 28, Condult Street, Lon-
don, W.1. ‘Tel: MAYfair 6818.
N 4,500 for qal .
a
lence. le
Speriers. 8 Seat urea! dos lomentio
in, lawn, shrubbery,
gariacetnnt paddock St Cottages and
additional land ‘avaliable ie. ST SOCRRAM Dorrs

aXp StaaG, South Molton. Te oe caked
tractive
Freehold Ba Baaldence with cent. heat., in
oak pitng conkioun ‘Usual ofttoes, Garage.
Gardens including lawns, smail orchard
Vacant possession. 7, 500A) ply: J.

WsTBURY, F.gg¢.P.A.. 120, Stre: 5
London, 8,20" Tulse Hill best? et

R' Valley. For sate by private ie ti oet a free

hold resi thal pi irty, sultab’

or Lnatieution. 4 Frat town with .

Feception rooms, 1¢ bed. and dresing oma

2 bathrooms, tennis Oh canael cottages,

sores. 27,000 ‘with ‘vacant posseasl “int
Gots, Kxarr & KExxEpy, ‘Rotate

Ross-on-Wye.

MELTON MOWBRAY. For sale, £6, 000,
small Residence, 83 loose boxes, gars,
ets. Vacant.—Apply, SHOULER
Melton Mowbray.
ROXBURGHSHIRE. By diroctlon of G, A.
Cunningham, Eeq., the desirable, reaiden-
tial and agricultural’ estate of Abbotrule,
extending to 337 acres of which 232 or thereby
are enclosed parkland and the romalnder
pelicy and woodlands. The house which is
exceptionally well-bullt and beautifully altu-
ated with a southern exposure, contains
entrance ball and cloakroom, 4 public rooms,
7 bedrooms, 3 dresring reoms, ample servanta!
quarters and the usual domestic offices, Cen-
tral heating, Walied garden of 1% acres,
heated greenhouses and vinery. Garage for Z
cars, stabling with 2 loose boxes. There
are alx cottages and useful buildings. Abbot-
rule ts altuated 9 miles from Hawick and 6
from Jedburgh. Hunting with Jedforest and
Buccleuch haunds. Early entry with vacant
possession. Full particulars and cards to
view from the un ralgned, who will recaive
offers up to and inclu dog April 3¢ 20, Lo ire
ANDREW OLIV: state
Acents, Hawicl
gourTH “AFRICAN FARM, situated 17
miles from centre of Cape "town, frontage
on macadamised road, magnificent view from
ultra modern homestead. 120,000 vines, frult
troes, over 2,000 olives, 3,000 poultry, tobacco
tation, dalty equipment with Iucrative
lepot in Cape Town. Total income from 140
sores ane dai dairy, depot about £6,000 per annum.
Price £4. if on

bond).—W Cyan
ROBineon & Co., 18, Keerom treet, Cape
Town, 8..

$ CORNWALL. A yachtsman’e residence.
A beautiful home with every comfort for a
cntaman. Lovely garden icy 2 acres).
fect views all directions, including sweep-
ings bay, harbour, and wooded hile. Easy
cep sheltered anchorage; 2 spacious
ya 6 excellent bedrooms (4 with basins
1 en suite bathroom), sun ja, 2
aplendid spacious modern domes-
ten Mees ¥ wit n Ags, cooker, cloaks, etc. Fine
outbullding luding garage 2 cars, sumrocr
and groen! Binet Main services, Freehold.
Prico, £12,500. Vacant eat,
Sole Agenta, SrockToON ; RUUMBTAAD,

Mawnan, Fmonth. ae

si el

s River etree. ‘An excellent #7 small farm of
about 125 acres near the Helford River.
Approached by short road off main road to
market towns of Helston, Redruth and Truro,
he property includes farmhouse (2 Tone ion,
bedrooms, eto.). Range ings,
fnotecling large Dutoh barn, 3 cow yess wo
tle 30, barn, | very modern pl Bigs house (for 120);

workshops, t1 rand im moat E seede, ete.
y pcan emerson Freehold. 411, 000.
and Dead stock avallabie jo saattionally
ifreanited. — Aynly Role Agents, STOCETON AND

PLoMerRan, Mawnan, Falmouth, Ref. 2001,

AGENTS

LL ENQUIRERS for IRISH PROPER:
Attn should consult the firm wate

ish oustor.—DILBAY, 20, Bt. Margarets
Hoad, Twlokenham.. Poy 2 1831.
BERKS, BUCKS-AND OXON. Gao
Maidenhead (Tel. 54), Windsor Ain vel
8 yet 20048), Sunnt le (Ascot

oan
and ‘Country Pi es of all ¢
Mantixn & Pout, £3, rket bdr
(Tel. 8378). Aid at Caversham and Wwoxing

CENTRAL EAST ANGLIA Agents:
Pracival & TURNER, 81 Suffolk.

HOBBS & z Onan, The Land od Agents,

Estate A:
Utes’ 838 and 63) Faringdon son (helt Bis).
cna, ¥.a.1., Oi

“7

RCUS
and Valuations (Tots Bexleyheath 8388),
Selected Lista of | PROPERTIES Revron

Boswat. & Co., F.a.t., Exeter (Tel; 3240),

EAST ANGLIA and HOME COUNTIES,
MESSENGER, MORGAN & May, Chartered
Surveyors, 28, Victoria Street, Westminster,
S.W.1 (and at Gulldford). Salea of Estates,
Farma and Country Houses.

DORSET and NEW FOREST. Country
Houses with 8-8 bedrooms urgently
Togulred for large number of bona fide users.
vantageous sale quickly assured.
to: TWREDALK & Ri.zy, Wimborne erat 900 $00}
Teron (Tel. $55), and Christchurch (7

“re DOUGLAS ALLEN & CO., P,A.L.P.A.s

Surveyors and Valuers. Suburban,
Country and acl peanive Properties, Farms, 6s gmail
Holdings, etc., for sale or wanted,
management and professional worl recive
the persona] attention of the principals.—42,
‘Woodford Avenue, Iiford, Hasex (Valentine
7800); 81%, London Road, Leigh-on-Sea,
Fesex’ (Leigh 74359).

R the DISPOSAL or PURCHASE of

PROPERTY in tho BOUTH-WESTERN
COUNTIES, whether Cottage, Manslon, Farm
or Hotel, tho PERSONAL SERVICE of
Gripuie, Boorn & SHEPHERD, F.A.E.P.A., iH
readily available. "Phone: 434 Yeavil, Somer
not. or 166, Basingstoke, Hants.

C. & VERNON WEBBER, Auctioncers

‘and Ketate Agents for Somerset and
Local Properties, opposite Town Hail,
Weston-super-Mare. Tel, 161 W-a-M.

prise Sporting Properties, Estates, Farms,
Factorics and City Investmenta. Consult
SToxes & QUIRKE, Auctioneers and Valuers,
33, Kildare Street, Dublin, "Phone 61511/2;
also at Clonmel and Fethard, Co. Tipperary.
Valuations made for Probate, Eve Assessing,
Insurance, eto. Estates mani

ENT AND SUSSEX BORDERS.
bracgarr & fons, a 29, High Street,
Tunbridge Wells (Tel. 1
JACKSON-! STON te Offices,
» ‘Allestren, Derby. Tel: Derby B76L2 ae
Lines). Spocialiats in the sale of country
perties and ricultural estates. ave
Tumerous genuine enquiries for country
houses tiemen’s farms, small holdings,
dairy arable farms in all parts of
country. WI owners ploase send full details,
Mio-suseEx. For avaliable Properties in
Mid-Sussex— BRADLEY & VAUGHAN,F.4.L,
Batate Agents, Haywards Heath (Tel. oi).

N. HERTS AND BORDERS. GuyorcE
* Jackeon & Son, of Hitohin (Hstd. 1846),
Chartered Surveyors, Estate Agente and
Auctioneers: Hesidential and Agricultural

Surveys god f aluationt:

Properties Sales,
(Tel. 18), and at Steven: Tel. 1
SHROPAHIAE, Tonier Santee ad North

Wales, For Residences, Farms, etc., write
the Frineipa
Owsnx, Lo.

1 HALL, WATERIDGR AND
oe Bktewnbury Tel ont
ant Ti 1E8.—

MESSENGER, Mogkgan & May, Land
Agente, Guildford Tel, | 2092-8). ‘Betates,
Farms and oa

Janvie & Co, of H Heath,
pT Lele A Raped metngenr 4
of which are aolely in thelr hands, (Tel. sia
we va rae for aA

vet valte
throughout, tine W dl ‘Odasait os
At ba Baldorin. Bicort: Brintel. Tok, 6608.
Wee nero Tee
Baornens & HARgmon, 1, Im
Square, ‘Gpettewhar (Tot bate ie
AGENTS FOR THE Wasi”)

b
Properties in this
MrgoELTor & Masor FA. STeate he
hati id . “Koons,
Bank : Chetabers, Shipley. "Property
ta (Tel; Bhi} 32, 2533, 5

Residential tnd Aerieu}
. Beton &

(“THE

COUN!..Y LireE— MARCH 28, 1942 Day

marewe. JOHN D. WOOD & CO. meron

eal 23, BERKELEY SQUARE, LONDON, W 1
NEAR BASINGSTOKE, HAMPSHIRE NEAR NORTH SOMERSET COAST
Las BRICK GEORGIAN HO!
in finely timbered grounds with surrounding lands of about Tr Acras RESIDENTIAN PROPERTY ot ABOUT 20 Acris
as Medium sized House of i .
‘wl Square hali and 4 reception Georgian character

rooms including large lofty with external shutters ap

drawing room 34 ft x22 ft peceched by long oyu

¥ bedrooms 3 bathrooms Hall 3 large reception

rooms with period fire

Wess abe from orn | RS, een

plant) but main near

Blectric light Central heat-
Central heating ¢hroughout ing or ly ailing

Very good outbuildings
with Sat

Esse cooker above and two
excellent cottages

Self contained annex for married coupl« and two good cottages 16 ACRES of grassiand the remainder woodland bounded by a fast running atrean.
For Sale Freehold, with possession by the Autumn, at a moderate price A BARGAIN AT £1 A niary Residence of 4 bed 2 aitting rooms utd
Recommended a8 a property of character and distinction Jonx D Woon lo bath with 4 acres pining fs available if required

asabove (61 296) Inspectad and recommended b: HN 1) Woop & 10 asabou (72,044)
LIPHOOK, HAMPSHIRE SUSSEX NEAR FARNHAM, SURREY DORSET AND SOMERSET
BORDERS In the beautiful weit ' w. L BORDERS
Dauly reach of Town wthe seelt wooded.) atley, of the: Wey . Londen Yeovl 8 mules and Sherborne & must

38 miler One hour from Waterloo

HISTORICAL AND AESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES,
WAVEALEY ABBEY AND MOOR PARK ESTATES

ABOUT 600 ACRES
FINE GEORGIAN AND ADAM MANSIONS

suitable for School Club or conversion int Flate Twenty
ind and 6 bathrooms and 15 lid and 6 bathrooms both
with perlod decorations Central beating Electric light

(4mpany 6 water Gas availallk lovely grounds with
«winning pool and squash court sloping down to thr
River Wey with the
CHARMING WELL-PLANNED MODEAN HOUSE HISTORIC ABBEY BRUINS

Hall dining ream lounge 78 bedrooms with basins

4 bathrootun oak Hoors compl te central heating main
services Kast cooker Garant stabling attractiv gardens Homme farm lodges small bclding cottages wowdlands and
5 AC! Loathlands

STONE-BUILT HOUSE OF CHARACTE!

Ihree reception 6 bedrooms with basin 2 bathrooma
(intra) beating Maln eketricity and water Stabling

Garage Chaiming garden Ladd ck 2}, ACRES
Bounded by the River Yeo

paddock, hard tennia curt FOR SALE, £8. FREKHOLO
FOR GALK FREEHOLD WITH POS! N Jon
EASEHOCD WITH © Valuable gravil bearing land Further particulars from JoHw 0 Woop & Co ae above
Recommended by Jonn D Woop & Fo _ (82 246)
For Sale by Auction, untess sold privately, SURREY

BALLINACOURTE ESTATE, TIPPERARY
JN ‘THE GLEN OF AHERLOW

on June £, 1947 Within one hour of Town

Farnham Surrey and JouN b Woop
AND (0 as above

kuuak & Co

IMMEDIATE POSSESSION
SURREY HILLS
35 to 40 minutes London
GEORUIAN-STYLE RESIDENCE

Flve bedruoms 3 reception rooms bathroom annexe with
$ rooms Main water and yas Ample ¢ utbuildings

MODEAN HOUSE fa south with extensive views to Gardena and orchard paddocks and pasture SUPERUATIVELY FITTED MODERN HOUSE

he Galtect Three re 8 bedrooms 2 bathrooms

Woodie z garden ‘and, waterfall Two oot! a 10 40 ACRES Lounge hall 3 reception rooma 12 bedrooms (basina ari
ACRES of; woodland. 2 aceee of raseland Hotel fitted cupboards) _vetnroony 8 ™ ag pitcent lanes room
capable of develapment situated on main ro: Inchude. modern offices ( entral heatin: i ATER
A ee tae ep wae rik ei’ natensS/B' WA Beane
ALLEN & TOWNSEND 10 Stephens Gré’n Dublin and | 2! Sok Agents ROH & ROW Cxvrron 20" Belt susnectid and reommended by fous D

Joun D Woop & Lu 23 Berkeley Square |ondon Wt Street Helgate Surrey and JOHN D Woop & lo (22 492) as above (20 407)

FAREBROTHER, ELLIS & CO. eho

Established 1708
eaeanies7 AUCTIONEERS OHARTERED SURVEYORS LAND aGENTS “Farebrother, London”

29 FLEET STREET LONDON EC4

HARROW-ON-THE-HILL

A WELL-BUILT
RESIDENCE

Twelve bedrouma 2 batt rooms
5 reveptlon rooms

CENIRAL HFALING
MAIN SERVICES

Apncxe containing garage
gardener 8 quarters etc

In addition a semi permanent
building divided into twelve
cubicles

Extensive grounds
AREA ABOUT 4), ACRES

FPRESHOLD TO BE SOLD
VACANT POSERSESION

VINW FROM GROUNDK

THE RNSIDENCE
For further partioulars apply! FARESROTHER, ELLIO & OO., 29, Fipet Strect, E.O4, Tol.: CENtral 9944/6/6/7

BOURNEMOUTH:
WILLIAM FOX, F.8.1., FAT.
B. STODDART FOX, ¥.8.1., F.A.L
‘B. UNSLRY FOX, 7,8.1., FAI,

By order of Mise Vera lamn,
MID-SUSSEX. BETWEEN BRIGHTON AND
HAYWARDS HEATH

On the periph ‘the South Downs commanding superb views over the Suseez Weald. Within
dally reach of London 46 miles. Hassocks Station 14 miles, Lawes 7 miles.
THE FREEHOLD WELI-KNOWN RESIDENTIAL ESTATE

“CLAYTON HOLT,'' HASSOCKS

Comprising dignitied
Country House containing
7 principal bedrooms, dresa-
ing room, 3 bathrooms, 4
reception rooms, cloakroom,
? staff bedrooms and bath-
room, compact domestic
offices. Buperb oak panel-
Ung. Parquet Hoors. Blain
water, electricity. Central
heating.

Double garage. Stabling.
Entrance lodge. Cottage.

Heated greenhounes. Une-
ful range of outbuildings.

Deligutiul pluwure grounds. Productive orcuard. Pasture and natu
Extending in all to about 107 ACRES. VACANT PoseEsS
To be SOLD BY AUCTION (unless previo sold) at The Old Ship Hotei,
Brighton, on Tuesday, Apr! 194: 3
Solicitors: Messrs, HALL, Havpon, Marvey & Eaur . Arundel Hou » Arundel
Street, Strand, W. ON8, 117, Western Road, Brighton |.
77 and T2714 lines).

By order of the Exora, of the late H.C. Dick, E1q., C.M.0,
““" WAREHAM, DORSET

HIGHCLIFFE-ON-SEA, HANTS
Sttuated only a short distances from the village and the coast

COUNTRY LIFE— MARCH 28, 1947

FOX & SONS

ROURNEMOUTH—SOUTHA AMPTO! NCBRIGHTON & WORTHING

SOUTHAMPTO:
ANTHONY B. YOX, ¥.8.1, Fal.
7. BRIAN COX, ¥.B.1, 4.4.1.

BRIGHTON:
3. W. AYRES. A. KILVINGTON.

FERRING-BY-SEA, NEAR WORTHING
Situate in a private road within 2 minutes’ walk of the sea, & minutes from shops and
omnibussa, 14 miles from Goring-by-Sea Railway Station.
CHARMING DETACHED COTTAGE-STYLE RESIDENCE

“‘MORIE,’’ FLORIDA ROAD, FERRING

wita: old-world features but.
completely modern and
labour-saving throughout,

Four bedrooms, 2 bath-
rooms, 2 reception rooms.
sun lounge, well-equipped
kitchen, Garage.
CENTRAL HEATING.
ALL MAIN SERVICES.
Attractive garden with
games room.
VACANT POSSESSION.

Fo be SOLD BY AUCTION (unless previously sold) at the Steyne Hotel,
Worthing, Wednesday, March 28, 1947.

Solicitors: Messrs. FowLER Lego & Co., 13, Bedford Row, London, W.C.1.
Auctlonnera: Fox & Rows. 41, Chanel Road, Worthing, Tel: Worthing 6120.

SOMERSET
1 mile South Petherton, 64 milea Crewkerne, 6 miles Ilminster,
6 miles lichester, and 74 miles Yeovil.

Commanding fine views over the River Frome to the Purbeck | and within easy motoring distance of the beautiful New Foret. | gOx & S$ONB in conjunction with Mer. J. B. W.

FOX & BONS,
are favoured with instructions to BELL BY AUCTION
at the Red Lion Hotel, Wareham, on Tuseday, April 15,
1047, at 3 p.m. preolee!
known Residential Praperty
‘““*THE BREWERY HOUSE”'
POUND LANE, WAREHAM

ocgupying & convenient position just off South Street.
Seven and dressing rooms, 2 attic rooms, 2 bathrooms,

offices, Basina In 4 bedrooms and dressing room, All main

AN EXCEEDINGLY ATTRACTIVE
SMALL RESIDENCE

ly, the Important and Well- | having delightful views, and Is constructed eo that all the The Delightful Ergshola Residential | Prope:

rooms get the maximum amount of sunshine. Five bed- “sRipak HO eou' anon

rooms, bathroom, 2 reception rooms, good kitchen and | including the liners Tuderatyle alae of moderate
domestic offices.

Garage. Revolving summer-liouse.
8 reception rooms, mal A'a eitting coor, kitchen and good ehed. Al malu services. Part central heating. Telephone. and spacious hall, ample

ILLINGWORTH are tavoured with instructions ¢
LL BY AUCTION, e wie or in Three Lote, at
‘The Haif Moon H Strest, Yeovil
Wednesday, May 7, Seed, ot er mn, preciesly (u
previously sold privately).

alze, standing on an clevated site amidst woodland surround-
ings, with extensive views.
Kighteen principal and secondary bedrooms, 2 dressing
Cold frames, potting | rooms, 2 bathroome, 4 reception rooma, entcance vestibule
omestio omnces, food ccliarage.
Outhouecs, etabling, harness room, gira Gardener's
bothy. Prorluctive partly walled-in kiteFen garden with

‘ f
servioes, “Telephone. Heauelful:- garden’ end. arounds:c} Particularly charming gardens and grounds in perfect con- | greenhouses including vinery. Pleasure gardens, parkland,

ABOUT \ ACRE

altion Including well-kept lawns, ornamental rose garden, Own elec. light plant. Co.'s water. Drainage to septic tank

Building comprising stabling for 6, double garage, large loft. ily, fish pond, kitchen gardon, numerous fruit trees, etc, | Excellent lodge, and delightful amall-holding with cottage,

VACANT POSSESSION ON COMPLETION,
Also 5-roomed Cottage let to statutory tenant at 7/6 per
week,

The Residence and Grounds are frechold, but the garage,
stabling and cottage are held on lease for 500 years from
March 26, 1771, at an annual rent of 1/-.
Sollcitors: Messrs, CHURCH, ADAMS, TATHAM & CO., 19,
Lincoln's Tan Fictds, London, W.C.2.

The whole extending to an area of about % ACRE

PRICE £8,500 FREEHOLD

In all covering an area of nearly 28 ACRES
Vacant possession of the residence, grounds, gardens, out-
buildings, kitchen fanden, ‘woodland and pasture land and
amall holding will be given on completion of the purchase,
Solicitors: Mossra. KLOUNT, PETRE & Co,, 8, Charles Place,
Grosvenor Square, London, W.1, or of the ‘Joint Auctioneers
Measrs. Fox & SONS, 44-1 52, Old Christchurch Road

Particulars and orders to view may be obtained of Fox aND | jrournemouth; Southampton, Brighton and Worthing
HONK, 44-52, Olt Christohureh Road, Bournemouth, Mr. J, BW, Tnrnaworte, Pound Will, Worth, Sussex

7
LLANDUDNO, NORTH WALES
Cocepying 8 exceptionally fine Lindatiee at the foot of the Littl Orme, and commanding wonderful panoramic views over tha hry ta raat Oema. Anglesoy, and tha Irish Sea.
The ultra-modern Freehold Marine Residence

"VILLA MARINA,” LITTLE ORME, LLANDUDNO
The residence was erected regardiosa of cost, is svundly
constructed, aad f fitted with every labour-saving device of
the very best ae juality. All principal rooms have wonderful
yews Eight bedrooms, 3 expensively fitted bathrooms,

8 spacious recoption rooms, complete domestic offices,

Gelighitful marine terrace and verandah.
Bamp approach to beach with private changing rooms.

pee seoghnahh formal gardens witb Palladian jeviloe over-
jookfag Garage. All main scrvicee. tomatic low
preagure oil central heating plant.

VACANT basset gr odd ue oF

‘0 be Bold by auction at the North-Western Hotel, oy ndudno, on Friday, April £5, 1947.
Solicltors: Mossrs, CHAMBERLAIN, Jounson & Pagxm, Trinity Square, Liandudno. Joint A neers; Messrs, MATTHBW Ryan, Biake & WiLLiaMs, Augusta Street, Llandudno,
and Messrs. Fox & Sons, 44-52, Old Christehurah Road, Bournemouth.
Bournemouth 6300 44-52, OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD, BOURNEMOUTH.
(5 Hnes) {12 BRANCH OFFICES)

GHRIMES & CHAMPION

RINGWOOD (Tel. 311) and BRANOHES.

BERNARD THORPE & PARTNERS ,%"%i2

82, MILLBANK, WESTMINSTER, 8.W.1. & KENLEY HOUSE, OXTED. Oxt. 075

CLAYGATE, SURREY
OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO GARDEN LOVERS.
COMFORTABLE DETACHED RESIDENCE

Boven bedrooms, bathroom, 8 recente ree rooms, good domestic offices, excellent
condition throughout. Reated gissshouses,

Attractive ne pe of 8% acres Pasay,
Large swimming pooi.
PRICE £8,500 FREEHOLD

LIMPSFIELD, SURREY
Tn a quést private road about 4 mile from Oxted Station.
THE ATTRACTIVE MODEAN RESIDENCE
“Longetone,’? Braseey Road, Limpefieid.
commanding wide vicwa over the surrounding countryside. FREEHOLD Seven bed, 2 bath, 3 rec, a Main
Baven bedrootns, boxroom, 2 bathrooma, entrance hall, cloakroom, $ reception rooms. water and elec. Ge (ors Good atal . Delightful grounds of about by acras
‘wood domastic offices, Garage. with paddocks. POSSESSION.
Gardens of 4, AORE including tennis iawn.

MAIN SERVICES. NEw FOREST (RINGWOCD 3 MILES). Extremely detached
For Gale by Auction at the Hoskine Arme Hotel, Oxted, on Wednesday: MODERN HOLD RESIDENCE on 4 superb sive Tie “ped, bath,
April 16, at 3 p.m. 8 rec,, eto. Main water and elec, oh Good stabling. Charming gardens, paddoci«

Particulars from the Auctioneers, ss above. in all 3% AGRES. (More lend ) POBSEBSION. —

R'Nawoop ‘1 MILE) AN ATTRACTIVE g Oe TACHED FREEHOLD
R'Re IDENCE In splendid condition. Five bed, bath, Main gas, water
and elec, Garage. Nicely wooded grounds of about 12 ‘Acnke. Posse ION,

R'Nawoop at MILE). AN ATTRACTIVE DETACHED FREEHOLD

R'Resibanc overlooking charming reach of River Avon, Five bed, bath, & rec. os
Bar water and elec, Garage, etc. About 1 ACRE with small paddock

OXFORD Ge eat mies) ‘Twixt Chilterns and Thames. 8; lendid detached
O'NopEr 4OLD nescence. Eight bed, 2 bath, 8 rec., lounge hall,
etc. Maln elre. pes water. Oentral heati jperants cottage, 8-roomed annexe,
Riraget stabli Delightful uit atream, paddork sod orchard.
it4 ACRES. POSSESSION of residence and grounds,

ZW FOREST SOUNTRY, RES In hi utiful New Forest. Charming detached

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 26,

HARRODS

34-36, HANS CRESCENT.

ESTATE

Kensington 1480
Telegrams s
“Betate, Harrods, Londen’’®

SUSSEX, NEAR
CHICHESTER

Frontage to the Itehenor Channel and private Landing stage.

A CHARACTER HOUSE OF MODERN
DESIGN FACING FULL SOUTH

Y
Lounge hall, & reeeption and & bedrooms, 3 bathrooms,
contral heating, main servicus, modern drainage, garage.
cottage, beautiful garden and swimming poot, in all about

3 ACRES
MODERATE PRICE FREEHOLD
Inapected and highly recommended by the Owner's Agents:

HaRROps LTv., 34-86, Hans Crescent, ightebridge, 8.W.1
(Pet.: Kensington 1490, Extn, 810),

BETWEEN PETERSFIELD AND
HASLEMERE H/c.4

Undeniably one of the finest properties of medium
. size in Hampshire.

A MANOR HOUSE

built of Bargate stone, facing south, in ite own grounds of
26 AGRES, but not trotated, being within 14 miles of
Liss Station, and near bus route,

Seven bed, 6 staff bedrooms, lavatory basing in moat,
4 bath, 4 reception, galleried hall about 49 ft. x 28 ft,
sun-loungo. Fullcentra! heating. Parquet flooring through-
out ground and first floors, Three cottages (vacant
possession), Chauffeur’s flat. Co."a services.

Tn absolutely first-clasa order and richly appointed.
Immediate inspection advised.

HagRODS Lm! Haslemere 0953/4, and 34-36, Hans Crescent,
Knightsbridge, §.W.1 (Tel.: Kensington 1490, Extn, 806).

BERKS AND SURREY
BORDERS

About 1 hour London. Good train service.

STATELY GEORGIAN RESIDENCE
IDEAL FOR SCHOOL, INSTITUTION, ETC.
Suite of 5 largo reception, 17 bed, 6 bath, modern offices,
Co.'s electric light and water. Telephone. Central heating.
Good gnrage and stabling, lodge, ste. Park-lke grounds,

Lake, lawns, walled Kitchen garden, rich pastureland, ete.,
tn all over 30 ACRES

£17,500 FREEHOLD Eariy Possession

Recommended from personal inspection: HARRODK LTD.,

84-30, Hans Crescent, Knightabridgn, 4.W.1 (Tel:
Kensington 1490, E.ctn. 806).
FARNBOROUGH AND _ c.2

CAMBERLEY
5 minutes main road buses.
2 miles atation.

Near village.

DISTINCTIVE COPY OF A HAMPSHIRE
HOUSE

Sitting hall,
services,

2 reception, 5 bedrooms, bathroom. Main
Fitted wash basins, Constant hot water.

Built-In garage.

Pleasant well-scocked garden of about % ACRE

FREEHOLD £5,950 Vacant Possession

Harrops Lrp., 34-36, Hans Crescent, 8.W.1 (Tel.:

Kensington 1490. Extn. 808),

LONDON §&.W.1

c.4

1947

OFFICES

eeerey Giese *

and Sanlerrere

SUSSEX
About 800 ft. above ven level.
CHARACTER RESIDENCE, CAPITAL
FARM OF ABOUT 150 AGRES

c.3

Splendid buildings, 3 cottages.

The residence believed 16th century, hall, 2 reception, 4
bod, bath, large space {n roof (convertible 2 extra rooms),

Modern drainage. Co.'s electric Nght and water. Land
with south alope includes pasture and arable, about
30 ACRES of woodland. Stresm bounding property.

FOR SALE FREEHOLD

Inspected and strongly recommended by the Sole Agents:

HaARkops LTD., 34-36, Hans Cresoont, Kulghtebridge, 5.W.1

and Messra. ROWLAND GORHINGE & Co., 64, High Streot,
Lowes, Suasox.

By order of the Ezore.
SURREY By/c.3

{ mile Byfleet Station; Waterloo 40 mintdes. Clouo to several
well-known yolf courses,

MOST COMFORTABLY APPOINTED
MODERNISED RESIDENCE

In o sochuded and ploasantly woored setting, about. § mile
froin West. Byticet villago, Woking 24 miles,

Nine bed (2 with h. and ¢.).3 bath. 8 reception, cloakroom,
convenient offices.

Fart contral heating and parquet floors,
Garages for 3 cars.

Main serviogg;séqirining garden, En-tout-ons tennis court,
@robards. About 3% ACRES

£9,250 FREEHOLD

Sole Agente: Harrnops Ltn., Wont Byfleet, Surrey (Byfleet
149), and 34-56 Hana Crescent, 8.W.l (Kensinyton 1490.
Extn, 807).

BEAUTIFUL PART OF SUSSEX COAST c.3 KINGSTON AND ESHER c.5
Select position on private catate, direct acceas to private beach, On high ground within easy reach of main Tine station,
MODERN ARCHITECT-
BEAUTIFULLY DESIQNED
APPOINTED REGIOENCE
RESIDENCE complete with every modern
with main services, 8 recep- Spaverience. Thies reoens
tion, 6 hed., @ bath. & ma ae Tce as aeantzal
garages. Matured garden. pening. F Hes i ispoeed

HARRODS LrD., 34-86, Hans Crescent, Knightsbridge, 6.W.1 (Tel.: Kensington 1490).

FOR SALE FREEHOLD

Possession March, 1947.

ornamental
shrubs, otc,

trees,

In all ABOUT 2 ACRES
FOR GALE FREEHOLD

Extn. 807), and Messrs, Taeaear & SONS, ¥.4.., Aldwick Road West, Bognor Regis.

troes,

Hauzops Lep., 84-86, Hans Crescent, Knightabridge, 8.W.2 (Tel: Kensington 1490,

Extn, 828),

546 COUNTRY LIFE— MARCH 28, 1947

reeves 249 TURNER LORD & RANSOM reams.

ere 127, MOUNT 8T., LONDON, W.1

Ry order of Captoin and Mre. Derek Fitagerald.

PRELIMINARY NOTICE OF SALE.

BRANCHES PARK, ey eonnet

WELL-KNOWN GARDENS AND GROTNDS.
Walled kitchen garden, glass houses, ete.

COVERED SWIMMING BATH AND RACQUETS
couRT.

RED BRICK GEORGIAN MANSION

RESIDENTIA], AGRICULTURAL AND
BPORTING ESTATE.

Garege and stabling blocks and men's rooms.
Lodgos, 6 cottages, atc.

Fourteen mixed farma and other holdings, with
homesteads and cottages.

FREEHOLD. In all, about 2,600 ACRES.

For Sale by Auction in September (unless
previously sold by private contract).

Finely ftted and equipped throughout. Well-

arranged accommodation In suites. Fifteen principal

bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, ample staff rooms, 4 batli-

rooms, excellont reception rooms, inchiding walnut.

panelled brary and other panelled rooms, Adam

drawing room, ete. Of) central heating. Own’electric
light. plant.

PARK OF 200 ACRES anil good covorte of 150 actos.

Joint Auctioneers: TURNER LORD & RANSOM, 127, Mount Street, London, W.1, and DILLBY, THEAKSTON & MEARDMORE, Market Hill, Huntingdon.

CHAMBERLAINE-BROTHERS & HARRISON Sercite

1, Imperial Squae CHELTENHAM ten)
42, Castic Btre SHREWSBURY

Saat 2 Nines)

ST MEON HOUSE, Nr. PETE! LOWE! NORTH CORNWALL. £5,750

Fina OLD WILLIAM AND M HOUsE OF | VALUABLE F sbelag hong h heat TTRACTIVE OLD HOUSE, secluded, nesr_smail
CHARACTER In picturesque village, secluded, with EAR MARKET TOWN. DELIGHTFUL LARGE town, with matured productive grounds, 2% ACRES.
lovely miniature park. About: 10 bed., 2 bath., 8 reception MODERN BUNGALOW RESIDENCE. All ain | a,. (ovih with matured productive priate Seer.
rooms, | Main electricity. Central heating. | Cottage. | services, Extensive glasghouses, cte. 161, ACRES. | stunion, parages.-CHAMHERLAIN- BROTHERS & IfABRIBON
Ample atablea and . eto, Finely timbered old | Highly remunerative and interesting for occupation Cheltenien Gar akaven 2 ‘
ronnie. Pouseediok”” 1 rie, 780. 2 RHOLO.— or lovestment, FREEHOLD. POSSESSION. » .
ole Agenta; CI , v ERLAINK- iN, Ol o
Cheltenfam (aa above). RRB ARRIBON, HAND! A ROTHERS ARRIGON, Cheltenham (at NORTH COLFBWOLDS. 13 ACRES, £8,750
QUANTOCK HILLS, 3 OR 17 ACHES ELIGHTFUL MINIATURE ESTATE near Bourton
OVELY MODERNISED FARMHOUSE r on tho Water. OU R-SAVING MODERNISED
CHARACTER !n beautiful situation, Eight bed., MODEL T.T. DAIRY FARM, N. DEVON, 60 ACRES | SMALL STONE-BUILT HOUBE with jovely views,
bath., 8 reception. Malin electricity and water. rich grassland. Modernined inate (8 bed., bath and | Three reception, model kitchen, ete., 5 bed., 2 bath. Main
Orchards. lode! Home Farm for T. 4 eck rd), ectrle light). Splendid buildings, 000, or would sell | electricity and water. Central heat. Garage, fine barn,
FOR WHOLE OR £7,500 Wi POSS) ag going concern with valuable T.T. foe and milk round. | ample bulldings and furmery, 2 cottages, very attrac-
SION,--CHAMBERLAINZ-BROTHERS & Hanmiscy, Chalten- —UHAMHERLAINE- BROTHERS & HARRISON, Cheltenham (ax | tive gardens, pasture.—sole Ag: HAMHERLAIN#-

ham (a8 above). ubove}. BROTHERS & HARRISON, Cheltenhatn (as above).

SEVENOAKS 2247-4 SEVENOAKS. Kt

= (See — IBBETT, MOSELY,CARD & CO. Baie

REIGATE ase & 3793

NOI 5 MILES SOUTH

Entirely secluded in Grounds of 11 ACR a LOVELY COUNTRY HOUSE
wi every modern con- o
venience. — Lounge hall. pone eet call eis and 6):
cloakroom, | 3 reception All main acrvices, Central
rooms, bedrooms, # bath: heating. Brick-bubit
Foe TAT rei orien garage. Delightful garden,
Olle oe eer roe bak water: y% OF AN ACRE.
Superior cot fe of 5 rooms,
Garage and outbulldings. FREEHOLD £6,000
Gardens, orchard eas jock Poasenaion August, 1947, or
oft ACRES FREEHOLD hy arrangement,

£0,600 Sole Agents: Detaitn of Solo Agents:

jenerr, Mosery. pom ane inser, Mosety, CARD AND

incl
ont (Tel. 2247/8).

8. SaxpmEns,
FAV.A.

8. W. NANDREA, SANDERS'

MARKET PLACE, SIDMOUTH. Tel.: Sidmouth 41

“SUNNYBROW,” MARLBOROUGH, WILTS

On high ground looking toward Savernake Forest, and adjoining College playing fetds
HOUSE OF CHARACTER

EXfTER 14 MILES. DELWOOD 12 terre In delightful Devon country

Attractive Tudor style residence with 44; ACRES, 4 reacption, 6 principal and
3 norondary bedrooms, @ droning rooms, ¢ baihiroome, - Excellent, domestic: ens.
Main services with gus, electricity and telephone. Stabling. for two, Garage and other
useful outbuildings. Grounds reauiring Uttle upkeep. ith IMMEDIATE POSRES-
SION, FRERHOLD €7,500,

ALL MAIN SERVICKS. |

Three reception rooms,
stidy, very good domeatic
offices, 4-5 bedrooms, bath-
room, ete,

Norte DEVON, BARNSTAPLE 4; MILES. An attractive Georgian house,

with magnificent outlook, Grounds including two pasture fields amount to some
@ ACRES IN ALL. Three reception and 8 bedrooms, with two bathrooms. Excellent
offices. Part central heating. Excellent outbuildings ‘and stubling for 3-4. Garage for
2-3 care; chicken house, workshop, eto. At the very moderate price of £8,000
FREEHOLD with posession.

Attractive garden
2) ACRES.

Gardener's lodge in grounds.

Garage for 2 cara.

ID-DEVON. OKEHAMPTON 6, CREDITON 38. Convenient. small country
rostdence on high ground and with views of the Moor. Containing 3 reception and
6 bedrooms, good offices and cloakroom, double BaraRe, , Small cow sted and other
useful outbuildings. Garden and grounds of 3 ACt Very low rates. Immediate
possesion, FREEHOLD 24,500.

Vacant Possession on Completion.
Apply:

HOOPER, PINNIGER & CO.,
MARLBOROUGH. ‘Tel. Mariborough 41.

IDMOUTH. In a delightf residential nelghbournond. Modern, easily-worked
house, with amall garden and 3 reception and 6 bedrooms, All main services. (larage.
Freehold. Barly posseasion, £7,000.

AT HALF ORIGINAL COST. sr. LEONARD'S FOREST, SUSSEX

3 miles east
LONDON 59 MILES THE MOST ATTRACTIVE MODERN RESIDENCE, SOUTHOVER
IN EXCELLENT REPAIR situated in an indoscribably’ beautiful position and contatning 2 reception rpoms
Southern aspect. 200 foot wp. Geena ties, ¢ bedreomm, etusoee, Hala web se chert Abo © Poul
en {| mostly glorious ja) Including @
STATELY TUDOR-STYLE NEW WARN FARM with fortiiiuss Glainsard buf withrghe Tenet Or a coat of
ZSiDENCE works payment). Bungalow, excellent set of farm buildings and 90 ACRES of land.
Emlnent arenttect Superbly built. BLACK HOUSE Fi pe LAND, consis! of a range of farm buildings with
as of arable ba and woodland.

ing hall, cloakroom, 8-4 reo., 12

“Aga” About 8&8 ACRES of agriculture! land nd beautiful woodland, affording CHOICK.
alee ai com oattog. = BL SITHS suitable for the erection of good is residences, and and commanding some of
THREE COTTAGES; GARAGES AND THE a

STABLING WITH 2 FLATS OVER, Messrs. King. ie CHASEMORE

SO ACRES. PARE AND WOODLAND. have received instructions to ater the above for Sale by, Auction In ® Lote

2,800 (OR NEAR) ‘unleas Private
iat vere a cgncendh hatha m THE TOWN HALI HOM! HAM, 0: Ow Sitesiera ae varus 28, 1947 at 2.80 p.m.
‘Particulars Man at nd
(exctuding one cottage and a fat) Solioitors: Messrs. Ovnacuras, Mancaant 4 Aaron, 180, Gagnon Beet, London, E.0.4
ham Sussex (Tel. 111)

Sele Agents: PERCIVAL E. TURNER, Sudbury, Suffetk, Tel.: Sudbury 2123. Auctioneers: Messrs. Kiva E Caanmaons, Richmond

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 28, 1947 347

War do you ask of
the Batteries you choose
for country house lighting?
Reliability, long life, ease
of maintenance. These
three all-important
features sum up the

characteristics of Chloride

Batteries.

THE CHLORIDE ELECTRICAL ~ a
STORAGE COMPANY LIMITED 0 | ’ ] c
Stationary Battery Dept.

77 King Street, Manchester 2
» Tel,; Blackfriars 4731

BATTERIES

/ /gg Weather-proofing
steel

The Oxy-Acetylene flame brush

loosens and removes surface scale
and corrosion and thoroughly

’ ‘ ie
, dries the steel, leaving a clean, dry ANNOUNCING

and warm surface which is ideal

lor the application of paint. Don't
paint the rust, paint the metal—

and paint it warm. That way the
paint bonds better, goes farther,

A NEW IDEA IN

FOLDING DOORS

Here at fast is the ideal door for many a

home and public building. It folds accordion-

wise silently. its range of colours fits it for any

decoration scheme, It adds, multiplies and

divides spaces quickly. It is ideal as 2 partition
and easy to install.

lasts two or three times as long.
'/ The flame brush can be used on
j site as easily as in the shop. Full

/ details are given in Booklet Ref.
T.LB/H, gladly sent on request.

THE BRITISH OXYGEN COMPANY LIMITED
6th floor, Grosvenor House, London W.I

This brochure otves ali tech-

most fnfor uy and mang

instaliation copy
for the .

ENGINEERS LIMITED -

$48 COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 28, 1947

HOW TO
GROW
BETTER

WITHOUT

BASIC stac Speclallats In the propagation of all kinds of Soft Fruits
*

for over a century, CUTHBERTS will be pleased toadvice
all gardeners desiring to grow thelr own supply of
this health-giving food, to valuable for jam making and
preserving.

Recommended varieties for heavy crops of exceptional
flavour which can now be supplied:

All first-class, well-grown stock, full fruiting size.

SLACK CURRANTS. Seabrook’s Black, certified, 18/- doz.
RED CURRANTS. Laxton's No.1. 18/- doz.
GOOSNBERRIES. Careless, white, dessert, large fruit, good cropper, 4/- each,
BLACKRB@RAIES. Cultivated, HIMALAYAN GIANT, very gt igiey fruk, strong
feuiting-nize canes, 4/- exch, 45/- doz. The new MERTON THORNLESS, « variety which
will become very popular, 5/6 each.

RAGPBERRIGS. PYNES ROYAL, without doubt one of the best, 10/6 doz. The popular
LLOYD GEORGE, 6/- doz., 45/- 100.

STRAWBERRIES. The wonderful new sort, KING OF HEARTS, formerly Parte of Prague,
amazing cropper, very hardy, with large, heart-shaped fruit of exquisite favour. a
plants, 25, 10/-; 7/6; 100, 32/6. ROYAL SOVEREIGN, very popular, 3/? dor., 27/6 100.

LOGANBERRIES. 8 jorts, 4/6 each.

of using ALBERT Basic Slag are contained in this leaflet. Just senda CUTHBERT’S SOFT FRUIT COLLECTION. Provides ail the fruit needed for the
average garden, fonaering. of 12 BLACK CURRANTS, 6 RED CURRANTS, 3 GOOSE-

tocar r a BERRIES, 12 RASPBERRIES, 24 STRAWBERRIES, and | LOGAN@ERRY, 58 fine a1
postcard for your FREE copy to J. Harold Thompson, B.Sc. {Agric.), healthy bushen ete. ready for fruiting, $2/-, carriage paid. trong

Chief Agricultural Adviser, BRITISH BASIC SLAG LTD., Wellington RHUBARB. Fast-growing CUTHBERT'S CHAMPAGNE, nice clumps, 2/6 each, 27/6 dox
House, Buckingham Gate, London, $.W.t, WHltehall 2904, or in Creare Gane 20 IE cares ee

CUTHBERT’S FAMOUS SEEDS, NEW SEASON’S CROP, ARE NOW ON
Scotland to J. S, Symington, B.Sc. (Agric.), 27 Castle Street, SALEIAT ALL WOOLWORTH STORES:
Edinburgh, ‘phone Edinburgh 23582. R. & G. CUTHBERT, 37, Goffs Oak, Herts. Fiecs "Since Mh;
Catalogue of Herbaceous Plants now ready.

Full Information on the advantages and methods

ARRY HALD
BREECHES & JODHPURS

We are now receiving an increasing

supply of suitable materials for

made-to-measure Breeches and

Jodbpurs for Gentlemen, Ladiow
and Children.

Harry Hai
Sporting, Civil, @ Service Tailors
235, 237 REGENT ST, W1

DRY FLY
SHERRY

This world-famed Sherry
(formerly called Findlater’s
Fino) could not be registered
under that name and thereby
protected from imitators. For
the safeguarding therefore of
our world-wide clientele we
have renamed it—Findlater’s
Dry Fly Sherry.

FINDLATER MACKIE TODD & CO. LTD,
‘Wine Merchants to HM. the King, Wigmore Si. W-1

“At fase something ceally new and good in
beauty equipment—the lonerte . . . an attrac:
tive instrument designed to make home beauty
treatment twice as eaty. Five minutes with the
lonecte ag the and of along day will smooth our

COUNTRY LIFE---MARCH 28,

The Rolex Oyster
again comes to England

V tHE OYSTER, first waterproof watch in
the workl, will soon be arriving from
Switzerland in small quantities. The thous-
ands who bought Oysters before and during
the war know that this is a watch thae, for
all its elegance of design, ix as strong and
unfailingly accurate as a ship's chronometer
~-a watch as right for the drawing-room as
for the golf course, The Rolex Oyster in
stainless steel is a proud possession,

Wavnorncn Memarnk of the Rolex family,
the Tudor, also in stainless steel, is being
imported in increasing quantities. The
Tudor is for those whe want a genuine
Swiss movement at a lower price. Every

ROLEX

watch bears the Rolex label of guarantee,
proof positive of its reliability,

W QUANTITIES are still small in proportion
to the demand, but the next few months
will add both to the number of watches
and the variety of models, Meanwhile,
leading jewellers may be able te satisfy your
long-lelt desire to own one of the haest
watches ever made in Switzerland,

W rorex, creators of the fire wrist
chronometer (1914) and the flese water-
proof watch, also presented the fir selt-
winding and the fine calendar watch —
neither of them yet available in Hi itn.

The waterproof crown was pu-
tented tn tgat, fe wind the
Walch, unsirew the «rose —
which automatically springs up
and out. The watch can now b+
sound and the hands «et.

When the crown is closed, iwo
metallic surfaces are pressed
ghtly against one another, thus
ensuging the permanent , hermetic
sealing of the cae, without the é—
aid of perishable materials.

WRIST
CHRONOMETERS

The Rolex Watch Co, ttd., 1 Green Street, Mayfair, London, W.1
(H. Witspour, Managing Director)
‘Owing to present-day conditions the repeit service bas beer sxspended. lis resumption will be asnounced.

VHS «Be prepared” means “ biscuits ” !

They don't need cooking, and they quickly renew energy.

“Be wise” means “ Weston’s Biscuits.”

Made from the

finest ingredients obtainable, they are baked in the inimitable
Weston way that means crispest delight.

Westows

1947

THE

STANDARD LIFE

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For Mutual Assurance

Established 1825. Assets exceed £48,000,000

Special attention is drawn to the fotiowing contracts :

|. BUSINESS MAN’S POLICY
Inexpensive Life Assurance, with options to convert at
a later date to an endowment assurance either with or
without profits,

2. FAMILY INCOME POLICY

The ideal contract for > young married man: maximum
life cover at minimum cost.

3. POLICIES FOR CHILDREN

(e) Public Schools Policy. Provision for education by
means of premiums spread over the early years of
a child's life.

(b) Early Thrift Policy. Should be effected as soon after
birth as possible to providea splendid life or endow-
ment assurance policy when the child attains the
age of 21.

An inquiry will bring full particutars

HEAD OFFICE: 3, George Street
Edinburgh

LONDON OFFICE: 3, Abchurch Yard, Cannon Street,
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FIRESIDE SCHEMES

Sunk deep into our chairs before the evening fire, the fatigue of the day behind
us, how easy it is to rebuild the world! What they ought to do. we say, is such
and such. Why, of course! Then everything would be ai! right. ...

But eventually, bedtime approaches. It is Horlicks time, As we take slow sips
of the precious drink. we feel soothed and comforted. Perhaps, after all, we
won't bother with revolutions tonight... To bed, there to sleep the unbroken
hours away, there to awake in the morning infused with new energy.

What makes Horlicks so precious is that it is still not plentiful. But the shops
are sharing out supplies as fairly as possible.

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HORLICKS

350 COUNTRY LIFE— MARCH 28. 1947

o headache

under the bonnet

Headaches in a car generally lie under the
bonnet, for there the engine lives, The way to
prevent them goes back to the drawing board on
which the engine was designed, to the making,
and the inspection at every stage. There are
hundreds of inspectors at the Ford Works in
Dagenham ; that means a lot of inspecting. If
anything falters after that, there are Ford trained
mechanics at Ford Dealers, and standard fixed
charges for all repairs.and spare parts. Our only
headache at the moment is delivery, but please
be patient. The cars are coming along — fast.

PREFECT lOh.p. £275 (Plus £77.2.9. purchase tax) ANGLIA 8 hp. £229 (Plus £64.7.3 purchase tax)

Co ™~

OFA

CONSTANT IN PERFORMANCE

FORD MOTOR

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Bassano

THE HONOURABLE NOREEN LONG

The engagement of the Honourable Noreen Long, the daughter of Viscount and Viscountess Long, of Steeple
Ashton Manor, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, and Captain John Cairns Bartholomew, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Bartholomew, of Rowde Court, Devizes, Wiltshire, was announced recently

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THE AGRICULTURAL TARGET

E were assured a fortnight ago by the
Minister of Food that as a result of his
trans-Atlantic negotiations there was

“no prospect of breakdown in food supplies.”’
The quantities of beef and turkeys he had
arranged to obtain should be just sufficient to
balance supplies. Recent experience of much
more confident prophecies from the Minister of
Fuel gives little ground for optimistic reliance
on Mr. Strachey’s nice adjustments, and mean-
while eight weeks of unprecedented snow and
frost have been followed by floods which have
made the farmers’ situation vastly worse in at
least thirty counties, as regards both immediate
production and recovery in the future. Is it not
clear that the Government must act at once on
their own admission that food production at
home is second only to coal production as a
national asset that must be developed in full?
A sane and provident national policy cannot be
based merely on sympathy with the agricultural
community any more than on sympathy with
the miners. It must be based on the self-
evident value of the industry from the point of
view of financial strategy in addition to that of
providing the nation with food.

The other day the Government shied at a
target of maximum production of livestock and
high-priced food-stuffs set before them by Lord
Teviot on the ground that the £100,000,000 of
foreign exchange which, he suggested, we might
save for the purpose of purchasing raw materials
was much too high a figure. In trying to prove
this Lord Addison disclosed the existence of a
calculation made in Coalition times as to what
the post-war centribution of British agriculture
to the saving of foreign exchange could be made.
The memorandum, dating back to Mr. Hudson's
days at the Ministry of Agriculture, has since
been published, and discloses the framework of
a five-year plan for increasing hoffie production
80 a8 to save foreign exchange amounting to
#£80,000,000 at pre-war prices. Its necessarily
hypothetical figures assume that the largest
degree of expansion would take place in meat,
milk and market garden produce, that an addi-
tional capital investment would be available of
the nature of £250 suillion, and also an increase
in the labour force of the order of 5 to 10 per
cent. over pre-war. Obviously in order to be of
practical use in framing a similar scheme to-day
new figures would need to be estimated which
took count of ration in price of various
food imports and Whe upward shift in the cost
of imported feeding-atufis which have occurred
since the memorandum was written. But it
provides a basis on which the old figures could
be recast with a similar practical target in view.

Meanwhile are the more immediate aspects

of the question being faged by the Go iment
with sufficient firm: d visionf At the
invitation of the Roy. ricultural Society of

COUNTRY LIFE—-MARCH 28,

England the three other national agricultural
societies representing Scotland, Wales and
Ulster have met to define these aspects in
practical terms. The bodies concerned, free
from any political taint, can speak with ful}
practical authority and it is as true to-day as
ever before that an ounce of practice is worth a
pound of theory. Unhappily the unkindest
season that farmers have known in this country
for generations limits severely what can be done
for the 1947 harvest. All the extra barley and
linseed, however Jate sown, will be a welcome
addition to the feeding-stuffs that are urgently
needed to allow the substantial increase in
livestock output. For this is the key to the
problem. Farmers would willingly increase
their pigs and pouttry if they could count on
sufficient feeding-stufis. Here is the weakest
link in the chain of production. Only the
Government can strengthen it by securing

PUPP PUPYPUPUPUPYPUPUPA UAV DVA?

THE OARK HUNTSMAN

ELAY, O dark Huntsman, hunting in the
shadows,
Though I hear the music of your wintry
horn
Blown over cold country that was once June
meadou's,
wind the vich storage of the gold harvest corn !

Wait a little longer for our final meeting;
Foy always around me are echoes far and near,
Coming and going tn faint, elusive greeting,
To warn with downward cadence my own unwilling
ear
There ts one who is young, and dear to me as
living:
Wait until I feel that his strength is as his day.
Then, if my heart is old and tired with giving—
O wind your horn, Huntsman, and lead me the
dark way !
Vera I. ARLETT,
PUPUPVUPVPUPVUPUPVPUPVPUPVPUPVIVA?

additional imported feeding-stufis now or give
a firm undertaking to farmers that they will be
allowed to keep a supply of their bariey, wheat
and oats for praducing eggs and bacon.

THE USES OF ANTIQUITY

HIE Pilgrim Trust, though founded to help

broadly cultural objects in England of
to-day, has always regarded the preservation
of national tradition as an essential part of a
healthy modern civilisation. Its latest gifts
illustrate this sensible view. The contributions
made to Avebury—hitherto “discovered’’ and
maintained by private enthusiasm—repair of
the “Milton organ” at Tewkesbury, and of the
fabric of Hereford Cathedral, are obviously
purposes with a wider object than their
undoubted archxological importance. Less well
known but equally deserving on both counts,
Gainsborough Old Hall, beside the Trent in
Lincolnshire, combines notable historical associ-
ations, ancient architecture and a present
purpose, needing only a capital fund to con-
solidate all three. On the site was a palace of the
Danish kings; the quadrangular hal} built by
the Yorkist Sir Thomas Burgh about 1471 of
timber, brick and stone, is one of the most
picturesque documents of 15th-century domestic
architecture; and the town of Gainsborough is
ready to put it to present use as a community
centre, while the National Trust will assume
possession and see to its maintenance as an
ancient monument. The latter and the owner,
Sir Edward Bacon—who contributes £5,000 as
well as the property—have been anxious to
fulfil this co-operative service, but the money
has hitherto been lacking. Incidentally com-
munity use is traditional in this instance, since
in the 18th century the hall was the local theatre
in which Wesley once preached.

STONE OR BRICK?

‘ORKSHIRE Rural Councils are, rightly,

reviewing possible alternatives to standard
brick and tiles for building their housing quota
within the permitted cost. They realise that a
ted rash in the grey Dales would sin against the
spirit of the place. The problem has long faced
all stone districts where the want of quarrymen

1947

and cost of working have stopped the use of the
natural building materia]. It is widely believed
that bricks, needing coal to burn and to
transport, are cheaper than stone got on the
site requiring neither, but in fact it is not true,
as a London architect, Mr. John Campbell,
proved with a group of stone-built houses in
Cormwall just before the war when bricks were
cheaper. It has been pointed out that the
labour obstacle could be overcome by using
rubble masonry, with dressed stone only for the
cornering. The old farmers did not have special
quatrymen; their own men got the stone and
used it under the supervision of a mason. Some
relaxing of trade union regulations, or of the
allocation of labour to contractors, to enable the
stone to be got and used by the same hands is
commonsense, with all other building materials
so short and dear, quite apart from the zsthetic
aspect, The other alternative is to use brick,
but cement-faced or rough-cast then sprayed
with a cement paint of appropriate stone colour,
and to roof with grey or stone-coloured tiles.
There are many satisfactory instances of
cottages so treated in the Cotswolds. But it is
the arrant waste of existing material that makes
the issue of more than local or technical signifi-
cance,

TWO CROWDED MONTHS OF GOLF

FTER its Iong hibernation golf is to have a
great awakening. May will be the most
crowded and glorious month, but April will act
worthily as its herald. In the first fortnight of
April, when Easter meetings are over, come the
two preliminary trial matches for the Walker
Cup at Deal and St. Andrews. At the week-end
of the 20th is a particularfy welcome revival for
the first time since the war, that of the Halford
Hewitt Cup at Deal. There were those who
feared that in these hard times many schools
might be unable to raise teams of ten. They
need not have been anxious. No fewer than
forty-eight schools have entered, one or two of
them new to the competition, and the sight of
480 “old boys’ pressing on each other's heels
from dawn to dusk will be one to gladden the
heart of the founder of the feast. Next at the
end of the month, running on into May, there
will be the English Amateur Championship at
Gawton. This will give the selectors their
chance of adding to the numbers of those already
chosen for the final trial at St. Andrews on May
9 and 10. The Walker Cup match itself is
played just a week later. The professionals
then have their turn with the Daily Maiti
Tournament at Barassie, and in the last days
of the month there is the Amateur Champion-
ship, with the Americans to swell the field, at
Carnoustie, Here, as Mr, Squeers would say,
is richness indeed.

THE MAGIC OF THE NOSE

VERYONE knows how a sudden and
unexpected aroma, wafted on the breeze,
can bring back with astonishing vividness some
pleasant or unpleasant memory; but this fact
has not hitherto been sufficiently exploited for
commercial purposes. Now a doctor in America,
rejoicing in the name of Bienfang, is said to be
hard at work making a butcher's advertisement
from which will issue a seductive smell of steak
and onions. He will, he declares, “ whip up an
odour that will have you reaching for your knife
and fork,”" In this straitened country, where
the scent of a miserably small amount of bacon
will make a man rise earlier for his breakfast,
this sounds altogether too tantalising, but the
principle is admirable. And yet Dr. Bienfang,
though he may not know it, is no innovator. A
aa many years ago now, in the early days of
earson’s Weekly, the late Sir Arthur Pearson
had a truly luminous notion. At a season of
coughs and colds and influenza he had all copies
of the paper impregnated with eucalyptus. They
were sprayed as they came off the machines and
the whole edition was sold out in no time. For
that matter Hans Andersen’s swineherd might
be said to be earlier stil, for he made a magic
kettle, the steam of which announced what
everyone in the town was having for dinner.
Fairyland, however, does not count, and in real
life Sir Arthur Pearson wins, with Dr. Bienfang
a good second.

COUNTRY LIFE-—-MARCH 28,

1947

553

“WHERE THE CROCUS SHOOTS ITS YELLOW FLAME”

A COUNTRYMAN’S NOTES

dates back to the days of Mohammed the

Prophet, that when Allah made the world
He took the wind and from it created the Beduin,
otherwise the countryman and grazier. Then
He shot an arrow and from this.fashioned the
camel for the Beduin’s use. Later He took a
lump of earth to evolve the useful donkey,
and then, as an afterthought, He made the
townsman from the donkey's manure. A letter
from an unhappy farmer and dairyman in a
local paper causes one to think that the poli-
ticians who control our lives to-day do not agree
with this old saying, and that it is the townsman
and not the aguntryman for whom this world
was made, THis dairyman writes on the subject
of Double Summer Time, and I quote him be-
cause it is seldom that a farmer airs his griev-
ances, and stil] more unusua) for him to express
himself so fluently and to the point.

* *
*

ke aoe to get my children to bed I have
put the clock on half an hour. Should it be
Necessary to adopt this method of getting adults
up in the morning? I am a milk producer,
whose work gets him out of bed every morning
at § a.m., and we have endured the dark bitter
mornings of the past winter looking forward
to the lighter mornings for some respite. Now
the clocks are to be put on one hour, so for
another month we shall grope about in the dark.
When April comes and light again dawns at
6 a.m.,, we must put the clock on one more hour.
For nearly the whole year we grope for our cows
in the dark. Why penalise the early-riser who,
to produce milk, works all the hours of day-
light, seven days a week, without a holiday?
We are asked to produce more and more, yet the

"Tite is a very old Bedu.n saying, which

By
Major C. S. JARVIS

only incentive offered us is less feeding-stufis
and the prospect of getting up at 3 a.m, by the
sun. Haymaking and harvesting have to be
done in the evening and the hens stay out until
10.30 p.m., 80 ours is a 17-hour day!”

This is the stark truth coming from a
member of a calling on which s0 much of our
food supply depends, and what is the answer?
In view of the large number of strikes that have
taken place of late and the apparent ease with
which, in the majority of instances, the strikers
have obtained their object, one is forced to the
conclusion that striking is the only argument
that our present Government understands.
Somehow or other, one cannot quite envisage

our farmers lowering themselves to this stand-:

ard of behaviour, and therefore it is unlikely
that their case will be considered. i
* *.

HAVE recently received a copy of a

recent number of The Sphinx, the
English weekly journat of Egypt, and have
found among the many interesting features in it
an interview with Hassan Bey Helbawi of the
Ministry of Agriculture, who is possibly the
most talented, and certainly the most amusing,
man in Egypt. I still remember with pleasure
the occasion when he came to Sinai on duty as an
agricultural official during the locust invasion of
1930 and kept me in roars of laughter through-
out meal; and during those very strenuous
and almost hopeless days it was not easy to see
the funny side of anything.

In the interview in question there is a
story related by Helbawi Bey that is much too
good to be cenfined to the Nile Valley. Helbawi,
who was educated at St. Paul's at the same time
as Field-Marsha] Montgomery, was afterwards
sent by his father to an agricultural college in
England, but he had other views and appren-
ticed himself instead to Maskelyne and Devant,
where he Jearnt to be a conjurer, 1 should say
that as a conjurer he is right in the front rank,
and I believe I am right in saying also that,
while his father imagined he was immersed in
his studies of crop rotations at the college in the
country, he was in reality doing very popular
turns on the London music-halls,

HEN asked at the recent interview what

was his funniest memory Helbawi stated
that when he lived in London in the days of the
horse ommibus a quantity of hay was always
stored on the top decks of those vehicles to
serve the dual purpose of keeping the feet of the
passengers warm and providing a feed for the
horses. Helbawi was in the habit of boarding
one of these omnibuses at Tottenham Court
Road on Saturday nights, and saying to the
driver: “ I say, old cock, this hay of yours is
full of half-crowns. Look 1'' and every turn of
the fodder would disclose one of the silver coins.
In a moment the omnibus was stopped, and the
driver in his search for the hidden treasure would
throw the hay all over the road, which every
passing horse paused to eat. Helbawi would
then get on to the next omnibus to arrive,
and here again he would show the driver the
store of hidden half-crowns, until Tottenham
Court Road looked like a hayfield, “Every
Saturday night I did it—and it never failed !"'

554 COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 28,

PHOTOGRAPHING

A PAIR OF HOBBIES

Written and Illustrated by
ERIC HOSKING and CYRIL NEWBERRY

N the summer of 1945 we had the good
[ fortune to be able tou watch and photograph
a pair of hobbies, those most graceful of
British falcons which are a delight by reason
of both their smart plumage and their extra-
ordinary powers of flight, and the comparative
rarity of which makes an encounter all the more
thrilling. We can picture the cock now——the
dark, piercing eves and the smail, but efficient-
looking, hooked bill; the slate-blue head with
the dark moustachial streaks drooping down on
either side of the throat and standing out
conspicuously against the whitish feathers of
the chin and cheeks. As he stood there perched
ona bough only a few feet in front of us we
were fascinated by his beauty. The bold flecking
of dark brown feathers on his otherwise cream-
coloured breast, his well-clad rusty-coloured
thighs and bright yellow legs added a touch
of colour that was at once arresting; and
when he moved, his blue-grey back and wings
glinted with a pearly lustre.
Many times in the course of that season we
watched, spellbound, the hobby’s mastery of the
air. The bird shows an amazing turn of speed,

and we can well believe that it can
overtake and capture a swift.
Furthermore, with all its speed, it
exhibits remarkable control. It
swerves and turns and twists this
way and that with the greatest
ease and has no difficulty in catch-
ing flying insects, such as beetles
or even the rapidly darting
dragon-Aly.

Display flights are common
during the breeding season, and
the birds perform all manner of
aerobatics just for the sheer
delight of it. Sometimes they
will circle up and up to great
heights; at other times they seem
to chase one another to and fro
among the trees, Rapid wing-
beats alternate with periods of
gliding, when one notices the
narrow, pointed, crescent-shaped
wings and the rather short tail.
In many respects, in fact, the
hobby is reminiscent of the pere-

1947

1A PYLON HIDE 64 FT. HIGH WAS
BUILT FOR PHOTOGRAPHING THE
HOBBIES

grine falcon. Unlike the peregrine, however, it is
asummer visitor to this country, and it is practi-
cally confined to the part of England south of
the River Thames and to a few counties in the
South Midlands and East Anglia, though even
there it it nowhere common, Farther north,
and in Wales and Ireland, it is extremely rare.
It favours heathlands with scattered clumps
of trees, but may also breed in the outskirts of
woods.or in well-timbered agricultural or park
land. Pine trees are its first choice, but the
actual site for the nest depends on what nests
are available, for the hobby does not make its
own. It uses the old nest of a carrion crow, or,
failing that, of a magpie, jay or sparrow-hawk, or
some other similar nest in a tree. The height of
the nest above the ground seems to vary a great
deal, but the bird normally nests fairly high up.

The hobby is a late nester, and although the
birds arrive in this country about the third week
in April, it is usually June before they begin to
lay and July before the eggs are hatched, From
our point of view this was very helpful, since the
observation and photography of the birds could
be carried out after the completion of some other
bird-watching we had on hand farther north,

That first close acquaintance with the hobby
stirred our enthusiasm for further encounters,
so that last summer we were again on its trail.
Our good friend, Tony Wootton, first located
a nest towards the end of June. He had seen the
birds flying about in the vicinity, but they
seemed to take care never to return to the nest
while they were under observation, and as there
were numerous old carrion crows’ nests in the
wood it was far from certain which of them
would be occupied.

Gradually Tony Wootton narrowed down
the choice, and he eventually discovered the
nest by deceiving the birds just as we normally
do when occupying a hide for the purposes of
close-up observation or photography. He
entered the wood with a companion who con-
cealed himself near the suspected location of the
nest, and then he departed, making a commo-
tion as he went so a3 to draw the birds’ attention
to the fact that he was going. The ruse worked,
and within twenty minutes the hobby was back
at her nest ina Scotch pine.. Subsequent inspec-
tion showed that she was sitting fairly close on

(Left) 2.—-THE HOBBY ON ITS NEST IN
A SCOTCH PINE

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3—WITH ITS SCYTHE-LIKE WINGS
FOLDED OVER ITS TAIL: THE HOBBY
BROODING ITS YOUNG

three eggs, so arrangements were made at once
for the preparation of a hide.

The pine tree that carried the nest was a
tall one, and as: we looked up at the nest from
ground level it seemed remote beyond anything
that we had previously tackled; and so it proved
to be, The base of the nest was 59 feet above
the ground, necessitating the construction of
a hide 64 feet high (Fig. 1.) This was beyond our
powers, so we enlisted the help of a local con-
tractor to build us a pylon of tubular steel
scaffolding. We made a rough sketch and he
worked out thé details. Imagine our surprise
when the result showed that more ,than four
tons of steel were required !

The hobby was sitting so tightly that in the
early stages of the construction of the hide work
could proceed without her leaving the nest.
Nevertheless, we deemed it inadvisable to do
More than an hour’s work at a time, and the
whole building operation was spread over ten
visits. The lower part of the hide was a tower
10 feet square and 34 feet high. On top of this:
was built a smaHer tower 4 feet square and
30 feet high to carry our observation platform
a little above nest level and the hessian covering
of which our hide was made.

During the later stages of construction the
hobby would fly off the nest as the workmen
climbed up the tower. Usually she stayed about
in the vicinity, flying to and fro and perching
from time to time on other trees within a few
hundred feet of the nest, but sometimes she
went away for periods and was not to be seen.
On occasions she was very noisy, flying over and
around the nest with a rapid, shrill “ Quee-quee-
Queée-quee-quee.”

The first two eggs hatched within an hour
of each other on July 14, and the third on the
16th just az the final touches were being given
to the hide covering. The work was completed
in time for Lord Alanbrooke, who isa keen

(Right) 4.—THE HOBBY’S BLUE-CREY
BACK AND WINGS GLINT WITH A
PEARLY LUSTRE

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3—WITH ITS SCYTHE-LIKE WINGS
FOLDED OVER ITS TAIL: THE HOBBY
BROODING ITS YOUNG

three eggs, so arrangements were made at once
for the preparation of a hide.

(Right) 4.—THE HOBBY’S BLUE-CREY
BACK AND WINGS GLINT WITH A
PEARLY LUSTRE

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 28, 1947

5.—THE HOBBY CHICKS WERE SOFT, FLUFFY

LITTLE CREATURES. (Right) 6. FEEDING:

TIME: THE HOBBY OFFERS FOOD TO ITS
BROODING MATE

ornithologist and was associated with this project, to
take some colour films of a chick emerging from its shell.

We decided to allow two days for the hobby to get
used to the hide covering before we attempted any
observations, and it was accordingly July 18 when we
really got down to work. It was a long climb up two
extending ladders to reach the top of the hide, and as we
neared our goal our impressions were of the magnificent
view far across the count Je and then of the tong way
down to the ground below. We instinctively took a
firmer grip of the rungs of the ladder. The hide was
remarkably solid for so tall a structure, but it inevitably
swayed a little, We wondered what it would be like if
the wind freshened.

It did not take long for us to find out, and we
must confess to having felt somewhat uncomfortable.
A more serious matter, however, was that the trec
carrying the nest was also swaying very considerably
and taking the nest right out of the camera field. The
only thing to do was to brace the tree to the hide so
that the two would move together, and, although this did
not make the hide more secure, it did improve our pros-
pects of getting some satisfactory pictures of the hobbies

It was three weeks after the finding of the hubb’
nest on June 28 that we were ready to begin detailed
observations, and when we entered the hide on July 18 the
three chicks were hatched, the two elder being each four
days old and the youngest two days. They were clad in
plentiful white down and looked delightfully soft, fluffy
little creatures, but even at this early age they bore
the obvious stamp of predators and had useful-looking
hooked bills. Most of the egg-shell had been eaten or
carried away, and only a few small pieces remained
crushed into the nest lining.

Judging by her behaviour while the hide was being
constructed, we expected the hen hobby to return to
the nest very quickly after we were installed in the
hide. We were, however, rather too optimistic, and for
a time she could be heard calling in the vicinity, sume-
times while flying round and at other times while perched
in a pine tree a short distance from the nest. The chicks
took little notice of her and spent most of the time

sleeping. Presently she alighted on a branch between
the hide and the nest, jumped on to the nest itself, and
straightway began to brood the chicks. What a magni-
ficent sight she was: smart and trim in every feather,
and with such graceful lines. The even sweep of her
finely tapered wings was especially attractive,

For an hour we watched in silence, giving her time
to become thoroughly at ease. At first she sat with her
back to the hide, but presently, finding her feathers were
being ruffled by the rising wind, she turned to face its
boisterous eddies. At last we deemed it prudent to try
a first exposure, and were delighted to find that she com-
pletely ignored the slight noise of the camera shutter.

The next day we entered the hide about noon. The
smallest chick was then right on the edge of the nest,
having apparently been kicked there by one of the
parents. We could not reach it, however, to assist it

‘back to safety. When the hen returned she settled to

rood at once and seemed not to notice it, It is remark-
able how birds can ignore their young in this way.

The weather was steadily worsening during this
spell in the hide; the wind was freshening, the sky was
getting dark and it was beginning to spit with rain.
Suddenly, after the one bird had been on the nest about
an hour and a quarter, the other arrived without any
warning.

It brought with it a small bird which looked
like a warbler, but which could not be identified with
certainty as it had already been plucked. The new
arrival started to tear the prey to pieces and gave some
to its mate and some to the chicks. The pair were
together on the nest for twelve minutes, but so bad was
the light that it seemed almost useless to waste a plate.
The opportunity was too good to miss, however, and a
slow exposure during a momentary lull in the birds’
movements gave the result shown in Fig, 6.

It was a wonderful thrili to see the two hobbies
at the nest together, but a strange trick of fate that such
an event should be matched with such diffeult lighting
conditions. How often that seems to happen in bird
photography! As soon as the meal was finished the bird
that had previously been brooding the young flew off and
the other took over a spell of duty at the nest. As it sat
there brooding, this bird noticed the small chick on the
side of the nest and raked it back with his bill and
tucked it under him.

(To be concluded)

COUNTRY LIFE--~MARCH 28,

1947 557

NEW EXHIBITS AT THE TOWER ARMOURIES

By JAMES G. MANN

HE Armouries of the Tower of London
have recently benefited by what is prob-
ably their finest single accession since the
Restoration. The late Sir Archibald Lyle, Bt.,
eager the rare 14th-century bascinet
1) from Churburg which he acquired at
Catiers in 1939, when it was sold with the
collection of the American millionaire, the late
Mr, Clarence Mackay, The gift is made in
memory of his two sons, Captain I, A. de H. Lyle,
the Black Watch, killed at El] Alamein, and
Major R. A. Lyle, the Scottish Horse, killed in
Normandy.
This rare helmet, which is in excellent

1—14TH-CENTURY BASCINET

BEQUEATHED BY THE LATE SIR

ARCHIBALD LYLE TO THE TOWER
ARMOURIES

preservation, retaining even its original leather
lining, comes from the Castle of Churburg (Fig.

2) in the South Tyrol, where it formed part of the,

famous armoury of the Counts Trapp. Romantic
tales used to be told of the hoard of rare medi-
eval armour which no one had ever seen,
preserved through the centurics in its mountain
stronghold. The late Sir Guy Laking used to tell
his friends how he had sought admittance in
vain, even prevailing on King Edward VII to
write to the Emperor of Austria, but to no effect.
The late Count Trapp denied having received
these august approaches. When the contents
of his family armoury were at last made public
in a book published after the First World War,
they fully justified their legendary reputation.

Count ‘Trapp parted with the helmet during

the inflation of 1923, and
so rare is this type of
helmet that perhaps the
most remarkable part of
the story is that he was
able to retain another
like it. These bascinets
are the finest of their
kind in the world, com-
plete with their mail
aventails (tippets) and
decorative brass bord- ©
ers. One of them has now
come torest permanent-
ly in the White Tower of
William the Conqueror.

There has been put
on view at the same time
as the bascinet a most
important loan from Mr,
James de Rothschild,
This takes the form of an
embossed and gilt Re-
naissance parade helmet
(Fig. 4) and a pair of
elbow pieces (Fig. 5)
which belonged to the Emperor Charles V. The
helmet was a gift to the Emperor from the Duke
of Mantua, and the elbow pieces are the work of
the celebrated Negroli of Milan. Rich parade
armour of this kind has not hitherto been
strongly represented in the Tower and Mr. de
Rothschild’s loan fills an important gap.

Visitors to the Tudor Room will see a por-
trait (Fig. 3) of Robert Radcliffe, 5th Karl of
Sussex, which has been Jent by Mr, Henry Harris.
It hangs among the Greenwich-made armour of
the Elizabethan courtiers, such as the picture
itself portrays. it came originally from Lumley
Castile and is mentioned in the Inventory of 1593.
The Armouries are also indebted to Lord Dart-
mouth for depositing on loan the very important
inventories of the Armouries in his possession
dating from the time when his ancestor Colonel
William Legge was Master.

As now arranged, all the historical English

3.—PORTRAIT OF ROBERT RADCLIFFE,
Sth EARL OF SUSSEX. Lent to the Tower
(Left) 4.—PARADE HELMET WHICH BE-
LONGED TO THE EMPEROR CHARLES V
AND IS ALSO ON LOAN FO THE TOWER
ARMOURIES
ight) 5.—ONE OF A PAIR OF DECORA-
TED ELBOW PIECES WHICH BELONGED
TO THE EMPEROR CHARLES V

2.—THE CASTLE OF CHURBURG, IN THE SOUTH TYROL,
WHERE THE BASCINET WAS PRESERVED FOR 500 YEARS

armour, including the four suits of Henry VII,
has been brought together in the Tudor Room
on the upper floor of the White Tower, The
Council Chamber is used for the display of
armour of other European countries arranged in
chronological order. The wooden horses of the
equestrian figures are the work of Sir Christopher
Wren’s sculptors, such as Thomas Quellin, Joha
Nost, William Morgan and Marmaduke Town-
son, and there is one by Grinling Gibbons
himself.

On the first floor the swords and staff
weapons have been classified and arranged to
enable the student to see them clearly and easily.
Here are massed a number of English pikemen’s
suits with their pot helmets and square tassets.
Mr. F, H, Cripps Day has presented over a
number of years many items from his collection
which fill gaps in the series, especially in the
English section,

The Tower Armourics are the national
museum for the land forces of the Crown, as the
National Maritime Museum is for the sea, They
cover the history of English arms to 1914, from
which date the Imperial War Museum takes up
the tale. To illustrate the last period His Majesty
the King has graciously presented five of the full
dress uniforms of the late Duke of Connaught.
The Duke had the unique distinction of being
A.S).C. to five sovereigns and wore their cyphers
on bis shoulder straps simultaneously. These
fittingly complete the story of English military
accogtrement which begins at the Tower with
the armours of Henry VILI.

‘There has been armour in the Tower from the
beginning and it still houses a military garrison.
This is nowcladin khaki. Recently it worescarlet,
and previously steel, each having followed the
other in unbroken sequence from the Conquest,

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COUNTRY LIFE— MARCH 28,

Written and Illustrated by LAURENCE WHISTLER

NGLISH children when they are asked to

E name the most important day in the vear
generally answer Christmas though some

may regard a birthday as very little inferior
These are now the main festivals of childhood
A Winter without Christmas would mdeed be
sadly unfurnished 1f not quite uninhabitable
Let us pity the Lowland Scotch who have
nothing but a raw boned Hogmanay to offset
the loss of their greatest festival But there are
other festivals including a great one which we
Fnglish ourselves are m danger of losing

In the pagan world the rites of Spring were
at least as elaborate as those of the Winter
Solstice —the ongin of Christinas customs—and
to the Christian the Resurrection means as
much as the Nativity [ hisisonty vround ibe ut
way of saying that E aster was (nce nearly as
well kept as Christmas It may not have been
quite as well kept because the Nativity was
easier to imagine closer to everyday experience
and so im a sense mure human But cur
gain in keeping up Christmas would be roughly
the measure of our loss 1f we allowed I aster
from the social point of view to degenerate into
a mere feverish petrol fumed Bank Holiday
a fate which has almost overtaken Whitsun
already All these days have added richness to
living and given a rhythmical outline to the
year 1 do not think we should lke the vear
so well if we were to flatiron all the festive
features out of it I am certain our children
would not

From Adon signifying Lord both Adenis
the God of the Spring and Adonai the Supreme
Being derive their names In the msen Christ
are consummated all previous sketches of the
immortal victrm dead and re born for the sake
of men All the beauty of early resoicing 1s 1n
harmony with Easter as the arum hites in the
wheelbarrow jolt their wiy to the shrine

On the altar there can be only white and

TWO HEN'’S EGGS (enlarged) ENGRAVED BY THE

green the white of the Resurrection and the
green of eternal hfe arum lihes and narcissi
white as angels flesh by an empty tomb and
the deep green of English or Irish yew the one
evergreen that belongs to Faster and to no
other festival Yew m a churchyard is an
emblem of life not of death it 15 a pity
that romantic verse and vulgar opimion
have attached the epithets gloomy and

funerev] to its vital and lustrous dark
ness But the rule of white and green
applies only to the altar Anywhere else
in church or home al! flowers are im
favour and it would be simple to celebrate
Easter as charmingly as to day we celebrate
Christmas and the harvest for what pro
fusion 1s offered { Primrose moody violet
and upthrusting potent crocus daff du
and the more magic wild d uffodil hyacinth
and grape hyacinth wind flowers like an
exercise in delicacy and the anemones of
the Holy Land beheved to be the hihes
of the held = squills and jonquils and the
Pasque flower crooked blackthorn glori
fied Star of Bethlehem flowering currant
in iclond of tingling fragrance apple blow
and wild cherry childish periwinkle and
cuckoo pint and for a very late Laster
speedwell and the gold tasselled trophies of
the ocak .

Preparations for Christmas could be
made at leisure in the long crescendo of
Advent [here was a fast on Christmas
Eve it 1s true though little observed in
recent centuries but no day that resembled
Good Friday the sorrow preceding the jov
which gave to baster its meaning and
quality Yet there 1 no great reason why
Laster decorations should not be prepared
during Holy Week and being mostly the
handiwork of Nature they de not make
inordinate demands on human hands

AUTHOR FOR THE COMING
EASTER Each egg was borled mn dye, and the colour removed with a steel point

1947

A charming device can be made by a child
from the deserted nest of a blackbird or thrush
lined with moss and thickly mmmed with
flowers If the face of the grandfather s clock
announced Christmas mm a circular wreath of
holly it can now announce Easter 1n a lighter
wreath Those who at Chnstmas revived the
Kissing Bough (described and illustrated in the
Chnstmas number of Country Lire last year)
can now transform it into an Easter symbol by
covering the wire framework with wild flowers
and by hanging from a mbbon 1m the centre of
the globe a golden or a silver ball This would
be very much in accord with festival tradition
for garlands in the shape of that hollow globe
might be seen at Christmas Easter May Day
and the Harvest and the same contrivance may
well have been brought out and suitably
adorned for each festival Simpler garlands and
balls of flowers can be hung from mbbons and
unfolding paper bells and balls of the Chnstmas
kind might be used white blue yellow or green
but not red for red is unseasonable It 15

curious that Chaucer the poet of Spring should
so often refer to its

smalle flowers white and

COUNTRY PEOPLE USED TO CLIMB HIGH
HILLS TO SLL THE SUN DANCE FOR JOY

ON THE SKY LINE AT EASTER

red and seem to thmk nothing in all
that abundance worthy of mention but
the daisy

The customs of Christmas extend fairly
evenly throughout the day with a tendency
to rise to a climax in the evening Faster
on the other hand 1s notably a morning
festival there 1» sunrise in its carols

Hidartter ! helantey! 1s the cry It was

not the Church who insisted that the faithful
put on new clothes to receive the sacrament
but the pagan habit remained 1n force and
1s now not wholly disregarded as the flower
in the button hole the gay dress and the
frivolous hat mav testify “After all Merry
England hes onty a foot under Modern
here and there a crack may be found and
something comes up through the crack

So Laster breakfast corresponds to
Christmas dinner and on the breakfast
table there ought to appear the outstanding
symbol of the festival—-Easter Eggs one
for each member of the household The egg
was an object of wonder to primitive
people perfectly shaped and guarding its
secret the house of new life and the Church
found no objection to receiving tt at a better
altar Bless O Lord we beseech Thee
this thy creature of eggs that it may
become a wholesome sustenance to Thy
faithful servants eating in thanlfulness to
Thee onaccountofthe Resurrection Pope
Pius V appointed that’prayer for the use of

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 28,

EASTER IS
The cock announces the
Christian celebration

the English. In course of time these ‘ Paschal
Eggs" became “Pace Eggs'’—the only name
for them still in some parts of Northumberland.

To-day we observe the Easter Egg becom-
ing the symbol of a symbol. In one popular
form it is no more than the shape and shell of
an egg, and that made of chocolate, stamped
with mechanical ornament in low relief, or
wound in red ribbon. Normally, the same
design appears on both sides of an egg; for the
two halves were made in a single mould. Before
the war there were eggs to be had in all sizes,
fromauk to thrush. Thesmallest resembled wild
birds’ eggs, pink and blue and clumsily stippled :
these were of sugar with a centre of marzipan,
and sometimes a clutch of them would be sold
in a nest. Then there were the larger, paste-
board eggs that pulled apart to reveal a toy
duckling, or perhaps in wealthier days a pair of
silk stockings. These artificial egys are all com-
paratively recent. The Illustrated London News
observed their growing popularity in 1874, but
earlier than the middle of the century they do
not seem to have been known. It would be
interesting—and at the same time an antidote
to nostalgia for the past—-to draw up a list of
the improvements wrought by industry in the
keeping of festivals. Artificial Easter Eggs,
paper decorations at Christmas, the glass orna-
ments on the Christmas tree, the Victorian
Valentine, indoor fireworks, and the present-
day splendour of outdoor fireworks—
we owe them all in greater or lesser
degree to machine or laboratory, Vic-
torian or modgrn methods of manufac-
ture; and that is not.to belittle the
artistry they involve.

But the authentic Easter Egg, the
most delightful, and in normal times
the easiest to get, remains what it has
been, a natural egg—hen’s, duck's or
goose's—decorated at home. This
might be specially remembered in 1947,
when, if farm-yard eggs are in short
supply, chocolate eggs may be scarcer
still. There are several methods of
decoration, all of them used in the
present century. If an egg is boiled in
the outer skins of a large onion, tied
firmly on, it acquires a delicately mot-
tled complexion. If strips of coloured
rag are bound on, instead, the effect is
of marbled paper; but the dye, needless
to say, must not be fast. Another
form of decoration comes from Switzer-
land, though I believe it is also known
in this country. Primroses, daisies,
violets, tiny. leaves and grass are tied
with the finest cotton all over the

“THE MORNING FESTIVAL”.
dawn of the earliest

TOP VIEWS OF THE EGGS, WITH

surface of the egg, which is then boiled
in a saucepan half full of onion peel.
The result is a floral mosaic of un-
stained whiteness on a ground varving
from primrose yellow to a deep maho-
gany, according to the length of time in
boiling. A quicker and clumsier way of
producing a similar effect is to’fraw on
the shell with a white wax pencil, or
with a piece of candle brought to a
point, before boiling the egg in the
onion peel or in vivid dye.

But of all methods the best is one
which happens to be among the oldest
in England. The egg is boiled in the
dye, from which it emerges a lustrous
red or green or blue. A sharpsteel point
or blade is then used to inscribe a design
on the surface, by removing the colour
and revealing the natural white of the
shell underneath. This is the method I
have used to decorate the Easter Eggs
illustrated on these pages. I used a
tool designed for engraving on glass in
diamond-point, but the technique is
much the same as that of scraper-
board, and 1 would recommend the
use of the scraper-board tool in the
form of a nib, which can be bought at
most of the art shops.

The design may include a car-
touche, or a bunch of flowers, or a
trophy of tovs or musical instru-
ments; or the whole surface may be
covered with a riot of acanthus; or
divided into ovais or other com-
partments, one containing a cock crowing,
another a sun rising. a third a leaping hare.
If the eggs are meant to he kept, they ought
to be boiled very hard indeed. They were
sometimes to be seen in the corner cupboards
of Georgian farm-houses, each egg in a tall
ale glass, mementoes of Easters gone by.
And how much older were decorated eggs
than the 18th century can be gathered
from a document of the time of Edward 1, from
which it appears that a hundred eggs were
bought for eighteen pence, to be boiled and
stained, or covered with leaf of gold, and dis-
tributed to the Royal Household. All colours
have been used, and the axiom that red is
unseasonable has never applied to the eggs.
Only the rich could afford the golden apples of
the sun: others mostly preferred them bright
scarlet, in allusion to the Blood of Christ (though
the Chinese were dyeing them scarlet nine
hundred years before that Blood was shed). For
the egg is life's emblem, and red 1s the colour of
life.

It was not mere fancy that suggested the
cock, the sunrise and the hare. They belong to
Easter--to the “morning festival'’—as to no
other day in the calendar. The Resurrection
is thought to have taken place at cock-crow;
but it was revealed to a woman ‘‘at the rising
of the sun.’’ People used to believe that the sun
danced for joy on the sky-line at Easter, and

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THE HARE WAS SACRED TO EASTRE,
GODDESS OF SPRING. Children readily believe
that he puts Easter Eggs among daffodils for them

that they would see, if they looked, in his pale,
hewildering eye the dancing image of the
Paschal Lamb, They would get up early, and
climb high hills like The Wrekin, and answer him
stare for stare, and turn away with a floating
circle before their gaze, content that the Easter
miracle had been vouchsafed.

As for the hare, he claims a still more
ancient, if humbler, connection with Easter,
He is thought to have been sacred to the Gods
of Spring in many countries, and among them to
Eastre, the Saxon Goddess who fastened her
name for ever on the Christian festival in
England. German children believed that the
Easter Hggs were laid by hares, and French
children were told that they ran to Rome to
fetch them, In England the little sugared eggs,
that resembie those of wild birds, are to this day
hidden about the garden, or in the house if it
rains, and the children who go seeking them are
almost ready to believe in the ‘Easter Hare’’
who left them, so conveniently, half hidden in
tussocks of grass or in clumps of daffodils. For
them this game is the pleasantest part of

Only decadent children speak of the ‘Easter
Bunny,’ Rabbits— humdrum, overcrowded
plebs—are nothing to Eastre. But the hare,
swift, lonely and patrician, has mystery still.
To his sky-line silhouette, his eternal craving for
distance, there is pinned even now the last hope
of some Jong-outmoded divinity.

ENGRAVINGS REPRESENTING A BOW OF RIBBON
AND THE SUN a

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 28,

1947

1—A PAIR OF RECONDITIONED COB AND THATCH COTTAGES NORTH OF THE VILLAGE

OLD TOWNS RE-VISITED—XX

ASHWELL, HERTFORDSHIRE—II

A town defore the Norman Conquest, Ashwell is still an exceptionally perfect -mediceval village, the present condition of which makes it
a model of the character attainable through public spirit and enlightened maintenance-

village of tradition, with its exceptionally

numerous and well cared for medieval
houses, clustered round the beautiful church
and the springs that originally gave it its
name. How does it come about that, during
the generation which has allowed the
majority of villages—many just as picturesque
and representative not long ago—to dis-
integrate, morally and materially, and be
spoiled by commonplace though well-
intentioned innovations—how comes it that
Ashwell is so spick and span, so old yet so

I appearance, Ashwell is the ideal English

2 and 3.—ASHWELL VILLAGE MUSEUM, BEFORE
AFTER RESTORATION

By CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY

fresh? It is fanciful to imagine that the
spirit that animated its guilds in the middle
ages, when the place was still a market town,
can have survived into local politics, although
in recent years something of the same pride
and loyalty has made its appearance. The
survival of Ashwell is due rather to two
exceptional factors : it retained a prosperous
local industry—malting and brewing. The
Chairman of Messrs. E. K. and H. Fordham’s
Brewery, the late Mr. Wolverley A, Fordham,
was also the owner of a number of houses in
the village and took a very active interest in

(1930) AND

its welfare and appearance. This interest is
continued by his widow who is an energetic
participant in local administration. With the
increasing support and co-operation of other
residents, Ashwell has thus been enabled
to preserve itself while fully complying
with statutory regulations. This article wili
notice some of the developments made
possible by this combination of local
initiative, consciousness of tradition, and
public service.

All three of these qualities necessary to
a village conscious of itself (in the best sense)

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 28, 1947 561

went to the founding of the Ashwell Museum.
It began by two local youths forming a
collection of objects -illustrating the life of
the community in the past. committee
was formed to assist them, and, with a gift
of money from a former resident, Sir William
Gentle, a small condemned cottage, known as
the Tithe House, at the head of Mill Street
(Fig. 2) was bought, the freehold of which
was vested in a trust. Reparation revealed
it to be a very perfect timber-framed cottage
—or possibly the wing of a hall house (Fig. 3)
-—with its original shop windows and a king-
post roof. Its opening soon elicited further
by-gones and treasures from other residents.
There are two hoards of Roman coins,
tools connected with the former local
industry of hatting, furniture and household
equipment.

The great treasure is a 15th-century silver
reliquary, from a farm that belonged to the
Guild of St. John, and which, in all proba-
bility, was that Guild’s cherished possession.
The village school children visit the museum
regularly and are thus inoculated with an
interest in local and indirectly in national
history. St. John’s Guildhall, still existing,
was illustrated last week, and has recently 4.—THE RECTORY AND A GLIMPSE OF THE CHURCH

5._THE SMITHY AND THE ROSE AND CROWN INN, HIGH STREET. been acquired for restoration. Licence for

{ Right) 6.—LIMEWASHED HOUSES IN MILL STREET the Guild’s re-institution was granted in
1476 to its patrons, the Bishop of Lincoln,
then Chancellor, and George, Duke of Clarence,
Edward IV's brother, two years before this
“popular idol” met his celebrated end in a
butt of Malmsey wine. Its objects included
organised prayers for the dynasty of
York, and one wonders whether its rival at
Ashwell, St. George’s Guild, had a Lancastrian
bias.

Both Guilds were of earlier foundation,
for in 1457, William Freeman, of Ashwell,
merchant, left 6s. 8d. to each of them and,
among other bequests, 3s. 4d. ‘‘for the repair
of the Torches in the Ward of Dokelake,”’
perhaps implying the existence of a form of
street lighting. Dokelake (vulgarly Ducklake
to-day) was the easternmost of the wards
into which the “town” was divided, and
Freeman's house still exists there (Fig. 8)—
down the lane ‘following the col of the
Rhee below the springs and abové the mill
Fig. 7).

( en dank old farm-house was in 1928
restored by Mrs. Fordham to something
more like its original state, for the
present occupant, Mrs. Raikes. In the pro-
cess considerable mural paintings were dis-
covered, It consists of a long range running
N.W. and S.E., with its N.E. side to the
ae lane, the walls externally washed pink. The

? « upper rooms in the middle divided by a great
7.—THE MILL HOUSE, NORTH OF THE CHURCH chimney-stack have massive ceiling beams.

562 COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 28,

The S.E. end was added on to in 1935
according to the design of Professor Richard-
son (with a Georgian Venetian window), but
the main part may date back to the 14th
century. When, in 1928, a window was being put
into the S.E. wall the murals were found under
plaster on what was then the end of the house,
covering the whole wall and an earlier closed up
doorway in it (Fig. 10). They consist of a pattern
imitating damask (of which Katharine of Aragon’s
pomegranate emblem is a feature) outlined in
black and coloured red, green and light brown
(Fig. 9) with figures of mermen and maids in the
upper section. The first-floor room in the addition
at this end is a delightful library-studic with an
ingenious arrangement of bookcases enclosing the
head of a newel staircase (Fig. 11) The inference
seems to be that Freeman's house was enlarged
with side wings in the 16th century, the north-
ern of which survives, and the southern, con-
taining a painted parlour, at some date was
removed, leaving a fresco on what then became
an outer wall and was plastered over.

William Freeman, to judge by other items in
his will, was probably a grocer with interests in
Cambridge. Two centuries later, malting of the
excellent Jocal barley was well established as
Ashwell’s main source of wealth ; in 1637 the people
of Hinxworth, next door, complained they were
taxed disproportionately to Ashwell ‘which has
many rich maltsters.” Among the buildings erected

9,--ELIZABETHAN FRESCO COVERING 14th-CENTURY WALL
AND (right) 10.-BLOCKED DOORWAY AT DUCKLAKE FARM

or reconstructed during Tudor times may be instanced
the water mill (Fig. 7)—its predecessor existed before
the Norman Conquest—Bluegates Farm (Fig. 13),
and the charming range of houses in Mill Street (Fig.
6). An old woman living in one of the latter used to
tell of what a fine sight the wagons were, piled high
with sacks of corn and barley, setting off in the dawn
for London, when, in the 18th century, Ashwell’s
market had finally shifted to the Metropolis. That
the village was still fairly prosperous then is shown by
the number of earlier houses reconditioned with
Georgian doors and windows and limewashed facing—
for example the Rectory (Fig. 4). In 1714 the church
steeple was releaded, with the words stamped on the
lead: ‘‘Thomas Everard laid me here, he said to last
an hundred year.”

All these houses are not only regularly lime-
washed afresh, so that they shine white or yellow, but
have been reconditioned internally. The political
school of thought that condemns every building more
than a century old as insanitary and reactionary
would be prepared no doubt to level the whole
village and replace it (in theory, though with remote
prospect of practice) with new houses. The latest
Council houses are by no means unattractive; Ashwell
has its share, on a suitable site adjoining the old
community. But replacing old with new houses,
however costly and well done, must destroy the very
stuff of history—the homes of our forefathers. Careful
reconditioning not only preserves this association, so

1J.-BOOKCASES AT HEAD OF A NEWEL STAIR, DUCKLAKE FARM rich and refreshing in these days,,but can provide

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 28, 1947 563

12,—RECONDITIONED COTTAGES (the south front of Fig. 1) 13.—BLUEGATES FARM. A white limewashed Tudor house

accommodation just as good. The pair
of cottages in Fig. 1, of which the other
side is seen in Fig. 12, are a case in point.
The house walls are of cob, plastered and
whitewashed, and, before reconditioning,
looked pretty ramshackle. Under the late Sir
Walter Tapper's care they were repaired, the
roof made good and thatched, the outhouses
rebuilt and given pantile roofs, the casements
renewed, and the result is as good as new and
much more attractive. Similarly, the plas-
tered and limewashed cottage in Elbrook
Lane (Fig. 17).

The sharp pitch of many roofs in Ash-
well, due to the use of thatch, has been
repeated in the mortuary chapel in the new
cemetery, designed by Prof. Richardson
(Figs. 15, 16). It is a simple little building
of whitewashed brick and tiles, with braced
roof of deal and floored with grey quarry
tiles, But it has distinction and the local
character. Those qualities are the life and
soul of the cauntry scene, and it is they that
will inevitably tend to disappear under the
régime of centralised, impersonal, county
administration unless that is tempered by
energetic local patriotism. That it can be,
and how infinitely worth while it is that it
should be, these pictures of Ashwell forcibly
show. It is to be hoped that the popular
appreciation of the village’s uncommon, and
uncommonly well safeguarded, beauty and

history will serve to maintain this healthy . 2
individuality. 14.—MEDLZVAL LIMEWASHED HOUSES IN HIGH STREET

1S and 16.—CEMETERY CHAPEL. Designed by Prof. A. E. Richardson 17.—A RECONDITIONED.COB AND THATCH COTTAGE

THE

1L—LADY CAROLINE LAMB BY
J. HOPPNER

E past few months have witnessed
I a revival of interest in the history of
English art collecting. That this should
be so is very proper, and the gracious act of
H.M. the King in lending his collection to
Burlington House has done much to direct
attention to a subject which has hitherto been
little explored. Why this department of our
national life should have lacked historians is
curious. But it may weil be that while we were
in the exuberant throes of amassing collections
we never paused to ask why we did so and how
the major collections of the past were formed.
Now that we live in so revolutionary an era, it is
as well that this subject should receive deeper
attention, before the exigencies of the moment
bring even more collections on to the market and
disperse the little that remains of a vast and
proud heritage.

Dismemberment is always a melancholy
affair, and not only for the historian. Much
materia] germane to the history of collecting has
already vanished, There is much that will never
be uncovered concerning the intricacies of
collecting and, in particular, the all-important
relations between the artist and his patron and
the dealer and his client. Yet much can still be
done, Inventories of collections can be pub-
lished, and a measure of the taste of past genera-
tions established on their basis.
It is a fascinating task, as
readers of Sir Osbert Sitwell's
rewarding essay on the collec-
tion of Henry, the third Duke
of Beaufort, will appreciate.

This awakening of solici-
tude for the glories of English
collecting makes the experience
all the more enjoyable of seeing
a collection which is still intact
and still cherished by its owner.
London has reason to be grate-
ful to Earl Spencer for lending
a portion of his collection for
exhibition at Messrs. Agnew's
Galleries in Bond Street, W., on
behalf of the Friends of the
Fitzwilliam Museum, a cause
which wil] appeal to those
admirers of this enchanting
collection and which must
surely provoke the other Uni-
versity into a riposte |

The Althorp collection
itself is full of historical associ-
ation and contains many
important paintings which are
not unknown to visitors of past
exhibitions or to readers of this
paper (see CouNTRY Tage.
March 19, 1938). What endtws

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 28,

ALTHORP COLLECTION

By DENYS SUTTON

2.—KNELLER’S SARAH, DUCHESS OF
MARLBOROUGH

the collection with so much of its charm is that
it serves to demonstrate how each generation of
a noble family has made his or her contribution
to the whole : each member of the family had
added paintings to the collection which we may
take to represent their personal taste. To know,
for instance, why Sarah, Duchess of Marl-
borough, should have purchased Nicolas
Lucidel’s rare portrait, Anna Botzheim of
Nuremberg (Fig. 3) or S. Anguisciola’s The Portratt
of the Artist with hey Nurse, would be a definite
contribution to the history of taste.

The presence at Althorp of such celebrated
canvases as Van Dyck's portrait of Lady
Spencer or his splendid Duke of Bedford and
Earl of Bristol (not shown on the present occa-
sion) emphasises that the origins of the collec-
tion lie in the Golden Age of English art
patronage, the reign of Charles 1. At once we
are transported into the tradition of aristocratic
spectatorship and care for fine objects which
Van Dyck knew so wel] how to evoke, and which
even appears n his two liquid portraits of
Apostles exhibited here. It was a fascinating
and appealing epoch, in which the Court
became a paradise for artists and London one of
the great enivep6ts for dealing and commerce.
The connection between these two activities
would be a rewarding theme for research; no

4._MOUTON, A DUTCH BARGE DOG, BY G. STUBBS

1947

PAINTINGS

3.—NICOLAS LUCIDEL’S PORTRAIT OF
ANNA BOTZHEIM OF NUREMBERG

less intriguing is the role played by diplomacy in
the acquisition of works of art.

One of the particularities of the 17th
century, as this collection illustrates, was the
use of the Diplomatic Service as artistic agents.
Though the real founder of the Althorp collec-
tion, Robert, second Earl of Sunderland, does
not seem to have actually purchased works for
the Crown, he did use his position as Ambassa-
dor to Paris and Rome to add to his own collec-
tion. As a young man he had visited Italy,
where he was painted by Carlo Maratta, and he
maintained an interest in the fine arts a]] his life,
purchasing paintings from the sale of Sir Peter
Lely’s collection in 1682 and even continuing to
collect during his prudent retirement to Holland.
The extent of his connoisseurship can no longer
be established, though his love for his treasures
is neatly illustrated by his choice of scalloped
frames for many of his pictures, such as Sir Peter
Lely’s fine portrait of Louise de Kerouaille.

From then onwards, the development of
the collection followed a normal course, During
the 18th century it was enriched by gift, by
marriage and by legacy, as when Sarah,
{Duchess of Marlborough, left all her possessions,
including the pictures in her house at Wimble-
don Park and at Holywell House, St. Albans, to
“bad Jack Spencer,” the Honourable John
Spencer. Typical of the age
was that John, the first Earl
Spencer, should have added to
the collection two huge paint-
ings of the most grandiloquent
Italian manner, a version of
Guido’s Liberality and Modesty
and Sacchi’s Apollo Rewarding
Merit and Punishing Arro-
gance, from the Furnese Sale
of 1758, and that he should
have been in contact with
Gavin Hamilton, the well-
known English agent at Rome.
To Lord Spencer, too, was due
the commission to Stubbs for
his exquisite painting Scape
Flood and the beginning of that
happy relationship between the
Spencer family and English
artists which has added to
Althorp so many notable por-
traits by Reynolds, Gains-
borough, and Hoppner, inciud-
ing the latter's enchanting Lady
Caroline Lamb (Fig. 1). Well
might Horace Walpole write to
the Countess of Upper Ossory
that “Althorpisagreat favourite
of mine from the number of por-
traits, its old simplicity and being
so connected with our story.”

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 28,

MOTOR NOTES

CAR WIRELESS SETS

WIRELESS set, in common with heaters,
A defrosters and trickle chargers, should,
in the not too distant future, be a stan-
dard part of even the lower-priced cars. Until
it becomes a standard fitting in all cars, it
would be worth a little trouble on the designers’
part to leave room for a set to be fitted without
spoiling the internal appearance or the pas-
sengers’ comfort, or impairing the efficiency of
the set. During the war years much research
was devoted to improving wireless receivers for
use in vehicles of all types, and the benefits of
this research are now being passed on to the
private motorist.

The complaint has been made that listen-
ing-in distracts the driver's attention, and
should be prohibited by law. This extreme point
of view cannot, I think, be supported, as any
driver fit to be on the road at all can only
benefit from something that assists him to
drive in a relaxed manner. In any case, in
emergencies the necessary action is entirely
instinctive, and whether this action is done to
music or not can hardly affect the avoidance,
or not, of an accident.

All the pre-war radio manufacturers have
not yet resumed production, but the names of
the principal radio engineers may be found
useful. Radiomobile, Ltd., is a combination of
the makers of His Master’s Voice gramophones
and Smiths Motor Accessories, Ltd., and their
new set has been standardised on the new
Rolls-Royces and Bentleys. Pre-war makers
now ready to supply are: Masteradio, Ltd.,
Motovia, Ltd., and E. K. Cole, Ltd., the manu-
facturers of the Ekco. In the near future the
Delco, Philco and Philips companies will
announce their new programme.

When one is considering the installation of
a set the first and most important decision that
has to be made is the position of the aerial, as on

MANY MOTORISTS DO NOT REALISE THAT THEY
SHOULD CHANGE THE WAVE-LENGTH OF THEIR
WIRELESS SETS WHEN PASSING FROM ONE
DISTRICT TO ANOTHER. This map shows the best station
to tune to in any part of the country. Scottish Regional,
391 metres; N. ireland, 285 metres; N. East, 285 motres;
North, 449 metres; Midland, 296 metres; Welsh 373
metres; West, 307 and 216 metres; London, 342 metres,

(Masteradio, Ltd.)

1947

565

By J. EASON GIBSON

THE NEED FOR CHOOSING THE CORRECT AERIAL POSITION IS CLEAR

that choice depends the strength of the signals
received, and also the amount of interference.
The most satisfactory position is without doubt
the roof, as there is the minimum of inter-
ference, and the lead-in to the set can be short
and simple. Next in efficiency is the aerial
fitted on a telescopic mounting to the side of
the scuttle, this system also having the advan-
tages of a short lead-in. Mounting the aerial on
either the front or rear bumper does not prove
satisfactory, as the area immediately in front
and behind the car is very Hable to inter-
ference. Least satisfactory are those fitted
under the running board, as the signal strength
is reduced, and interference by static electricity
from the wheels and brake gear becomes a prob-
lem. During the severe weather from the begin-
ning of the year, aerials of this type had their
efficiency greatly reduced by the accumulation
of semi-frozen mud.
Most post-war wireless sets will incorporate
a feature first developed for use on fighter
aircraft during the war, that is the pre-
tuning of the set to certain selected stations,
which can then be obtained by press-button
tuning, or by a knob that will turn only to
the selected position. This makes it possible
to tune in the desired station without remov-
ing one’s eyes from the road. The range of
stations selected can be altered easily and
quickly by a simple adjustment, well within
the scope of the average motorist. It will be
found that the most convenient position for
the set on an owner-driven car is under the
instrument panel; provided there is ample
room it can be fitted neatly so that only the
tuning panel is visible, and this position
facilitates tuning by either the driver or
the front passenger. In chauffeur-
driven cars the set can be fitted
complete in the rear compart-
ment on the dividing partition,
orin the luggage boot with the
controls in the centre arm rest,
The interior of a moving car,
which is never entirely free from
noise, is not the easiest place in
which to obtain perfect reception,
but with a modern set good
results should be heard. The
acoustic qualities of a car vary
greatly, depending on the need
of passengers, rugs, or any sound-
damping inbetencnin that are
being carried, ‘But if intelligent
use is made of the tone control
adjustment, reception can be
immensely improved. Many ex-
services sets are being offered on
the market at the moment, but
the advice of a wireless expert
should be sought before purchase,
as many of these sets—excellent
as they were for their primary task
-—-are not suitable for day-to-day
use by a private owner lacking
in experience of such receivers.
I have observed during my
recent wanderings that there are

many cars on the road to-day with inefficient and
badly adjusted lights. One of the principal faults
noticed was headlamps so badly adjusted that
even when dipped they were a distinct inconven-
ience to other motorists, and when in the norma!
driving position were causing dazzle over a wide
area. If for any reason the dipping mechanism is
either out of order or working incorrectly, and
the necessary repairs cannot be carried out
immediately, it is well worth while having the
lamps adjusted to the dipped position, until
repairs can be done. Another fault noticed has
been rear lamps in which the war-time black out
has not been properly removed, or else the light
has become semi-useless owing to accumula-
tions of mud. Apart from the possible danger
to other drivers, this is an offence and renders
the culprit liable to prosecution. A less common
fault, because more obvious to the driver him-
self, is that one side-light is either out or much
less brilliant than the other. This can be most
misleading to oncoming traffic. A point that
many motorists forget is that on left-hand
comers, should there be approaching traffic, it
is necessary to dip much earlier than on right-
hand corners, In fact, on most main road right-
hand corners it will be found that no incon-
venience is caused even with the lights retained
in the normal position. A point to remember is
that should one be leaving Britain to motor in
any country with the right hand rule of the road,
it will be necessary to have the dipping mechan-
ism adjusted to operate in the opposite direction,

Since the start of the year, in the motor-
racing world things have been brighter for us
than for some considerable time—nationally as
well as for the individual drivers. In Sweden
Reg Parnell, driving our only racing car—the
E.R.A.—and ably supported by Brooke and
Abecassis also on E.R.As,, won both the
Swedish Grand Prix and another race held on
the frozen Lake Valientuna, just north of Stock-
holm. ‘The first race was in reality a rather
hollow victory, as the Continental drivers were
prevented from starting, owing to the ship
carrying their cars becoming icebound in
Gothenburg harbour. In the second race, how-
ever, there was plenty of opposition. Chiron,
Sommer, and Chaboud, the French drivers
with their factory-supported cars, were among
the runners, and all three appear to have been
equally determined to make up for their pre-
vious inability to demonstrate their skill, Once
again our drivers came out in both first and
second places, partly owing to their intelligent
use of twin rear wheels, which proved of great
assistance on the ice. As the Swedish specta-
tors refused to believe that our drivers were
independent sportsmen, and regarded them as
official representatives of Britain, these vic-
tories must have done our prestige a great deal
of good. The conditions under which these
winter races are held may be of interest. The
first was held on the packed snow surface of an
aerodrome, and the second on the four-foot-
thick ice of the Jake. In both instances just
before the race the surface was covered with a
layer of hot gravel, but corners remeined slip-
pery enough to terrorise the average motorist.

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COUNTRY LIFE--MARCH 28,

GREAT MOMENTS IN ATHLETICS—Ill

A MEMORABLE RELAY RACE

By LIEUT.-COLONEL F. A. M. WEBSTER

ELAY racing, apparently, has more
R appeal for the English-speaking peoples
than for the runners and spectators of
other nations, Or is it, perhaps, by pure chance
that no Olympic relay race, at either the short
sprint or the 4 x 400 metres distance, has been
won by any other than U.S.A. or British teams?
There are only two relay races at the
Olympic Games---the 4 x 100 metres and the
4 x 400 metres. The former was instituted in
1912, when Great Britain won in 42.4 seconds.
Since then the U.S.A. has won consistently, from
an initial 42.2 seconds to a final victory at Berlin
(1936) in the world’s record time of 39.7 seconds.
Of the other Olympic relay, the 4 x 400
Metres, there are some surprising stories
to be told, especially of brilliant individual
endeavour, In England what is usually
called the medley relay is popular, it
comprises a couple of furlongs, a quarter-
aud a half-mile.

Early in April, 1920, the University
of Lennsylvania issued an invitation to
the British Blues of the day to compete
at Philadelphia, where the “Penn’’ re-
lays are held annually. Few people
realised at the time either the significance
or the good sportsmanship of that invi-
tation, The American Press, also very
sportingly, refrained from emphasising
the matter, Our would-be hosts, however,
were by no means unawé af, or un-
grateful for, the great sacrifices made by
British sportsinen in the World War of
1914-18. Wherefore, they asked us if
Oxford and Cambridge would care to com-
pete as one combined team against the
single universities of the United States.

It had been the British intention, in
the first place, to send a team to take
part in the one-mile relay (4 x 440 yards),
but oeither G. M, Butler nor T. C. Ains-
worth-Davies, the two great Cambridge
quarter-milers, was available. So the
decision was taken, with some misgiving,
to send a team to run in the two-
mile relay (4 x 880 yards). Even then
some doubt was still felt when it became
known that Edgar Mountain, a really great
Cambridge half-miler, could not go either.

Things being thus, the team chosen
comprised Bevil Rudd and Bill Milligan
of Oxford, and Henry Stallard and Wilfred
Tatham of Cambridge. They were to be
accompanied by E. A. Montague, Oxford,
as reserve, and by Alfred Shrubb, the
OULAC, trainer, Lieut-Col, A. N.S. Jack-
son, winner of the individual 1,500 metres
at Stockholm in 1912, who had done so well
in the war and who was a furmer O.U.A.C,
president, was to join them in the U.S.A.

The team sailed in the s.s. Adriatic,
and still bad luck pursued them. On the first day
atsea, Tatham fell down ahatchway and sprained
an ankle, Then a great gale forced them to
heave to. The whole party, with the exception
of Shrubb, suffered much from seasickness.

As they approached the shores of the
U.S.A., a tug came alongside, crowded with
pressmen and photographers. The papers
next morning were filled with popular pictures
and snappy stories about the British Blues.
A day after their arrival the somewhat embar-
rassed visitors were out training at a delightful
country-club near Philadelphia. Stallard and
Tatham, the latter still rather lame, took things
very easily; Rudd, Milligan and Montague did
much harder work. They trained for ten
days and, as Rudd had said, made plenty of
good friends and bad speeches. They had ever
before them the statistics of their own and other
people’s prowess upon which to scheme how
their race should be run. They summed it up that
Tatham was to run his half-mile in 2 minutes
2 seconds, Milligan was to do just about
2 minutes, while Rudd and Statlard. with any
luck, were considered SH, for 1 minute

57 seconds each, a total of 7 minutes 56 seconds.
The record of 7 minutes 53 seconds was held by
the Universitiy of Illinois and the British Blues
were to meet the same team that had made that
record. Illinois, however, were not their only
dangerous opponents, for there were at least
four other teams entered. Each had shown
better than the British potential time in trials
during the preceding month.

The first day of the “ Penn"’ relays dawned
wet and windy and so continued until nightfall.
That evening Arnold Jackson, who had cap-
tained the Oxford relay team which, on that
same track, had won the four-miles relay so
sensationally by a single foot in 1914, joined

BEVIL RUDD, OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY, winning
the 440 yards race in an international contest between
Oxford and Cambridge and Yale and Harvard at Cam-

bridge, Massachusetts

a somewhat depressed British party. The Blues
were due to run on the second day of the
Carnival which, to everyone’s satisfaction, was
cloudless, although still windy. There had been
a lengthy discussion upon the previous evening
about the order of running. Rudd, the O.U.A.C.
president and captain of the combined British
universities team, had decided that Tatham
should take the first leg because he would have
to look after his ankle in a jostling start, which
would probably mean falling a little behind.
‘The Americans, as Rudd saw it, would be watch-
ing the British team and expecting a strong
challenge towards the end of his leg of the
telay from Tatham. He, as Rudd knew, but the
Americans did not, could not be expected to do
better than 2 minutes, and the fact that the
Americans would be waiting on him might well
mean to the British the saving of many yards
at the exchange of the batons.

None the less it was seen that there would
be a lot of leeway to make up on the second leg,
which Rudd decided that Stallard should run.
Stallard was likely to produce a sudden speed-
burst at any second and that was considered

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likely to cause irregularity in the running of the
opposition. He picked Milligan for the third
leg, because he knew that his fellow Dark Blue
always ran to schedule and was not likely to be
disturbed by any challenge that might be
sprung upon him.

That left Rudd himself to run the last of the
four half miles. He felt justified in accepting
that responsibility, He had more experience of
judging pace than any of his companions, and
he was quite determined not to be flustered
should he see, as he expected, a number of the
American cracks out ahead of him when he took
over the baton from Milligan.

The race started to a continuous roar from
the 40,000 spectators, Tatham, running to
orders, kept clear of the first rush for the
initial bend, at which he wasalreadya dozen
yards in rear of the leaders. With the
first quarter of a mile completed the
Americans, as Rudd had anticipated,
were distinctly uneasy as to what Tatham
might spring upon them. It was not
until the changing-point was less than 200
yards away that the Americans realised
that they: were not, after all, going to have
to fight off a challenge by the Cambridge
man. So they gave of their best, but tou
jate, for by waiting on Tatham they had
already lost many valuable yards.

Stallard took over the baton at speed
and was away like an arrow in sixth place
and a score of yards behind the leaders.
A furlong from home he started what
looked like a 100-yard sprint and the
crowd rose to him. He came into the lead
rounding the last bend of his relay, swept
on at furious speed, sent Milligan off with
a 20-yards advantage, and then passed
out in a dead faint. For a quarter of a
mile Milligan maintained the lead he had
been given before the star men of Illinois,
Yale and Pennsylvania began to overhaul
him, ‘This time, however, the Americans
had made their efforts too early to bother
so reliable a runner, and Milligan was able
to send Rudd off on the last leg with a
ten-yards lead.

Rudd, as he ran, was doing some
deep thinking. Next behind him was
Earl Eby, of Pennsylvania, at that time
the greatest of the U.S.A.’s great half-
milers, Eby was not a man likely to be
stampeded should Rudd attempt to in-
crease the gap in the initial stages of his
leg. So Rudd deliberately held himself
in check until he felt that the American
was gradually drawing up. Certain it is
that, had Rudd been flustered into a
change of pace at that second, Eby would
have drawn up and passed him. ‘Three
hundred yards from the finishing-tape,

Montague, who was looking on, yelled to Rudd

that he had a ten-yards lead of an Illinois run-

ner, who was closely followed by Eby. That

told the Oxford man the position and, with a

fleeting smile for his friend, he let himself go.

And what a sprint that was! An American
journalist reported, ‘As Rudd passed the box of
the British Embassy, from which streamed the
Union Jack, he glanced towards it and then
uncorked the most terrific sprint Franklin
Field, Philadelphia, has ever seen.”

That final spurt carried Rudd to the
finishing-tape 50 yards ahead of the next man,
and he promptly fell into the waiting arms of
Alfred Shrubb. He could have been hardly
consciqus enough to have heard the thrilling
announcement of the time: “Seven minutes,
fifty and three-fifths seconds. World’s record !'’

Had Mountain been available the world’s
record might still stand to the credit of the
Oxford and Cambridge combination.

The previous articles in this series appeared
on December 27, 1946, and January 17, 1947.

COUNTRY LIFE— MARCH 28,

1947

THE IMPORTANCE OF TIMELINESS IN CROPPING

By H. I. MOORE

and research supports the belief that in

farm cropping the greatest single factor
contributing to high yields per acre is timeliness.
Even the earliest agricultural writers were con-
vinced of this, and Cato’s warning, “In agri-
culture if you do one thing late you are late in
all things,” is as true to-day as when it was
written.

Going back over the records of the past
decade one finds abundant evidence to empha-
sise the importance of this factor, especially in
connection with the sowing of seed, Not only
does late sowing result in a late harvest, with all
its attendant difficulties or increased risks; reduc-
tion in the yield of grain per acre is of the order
of 10-20 per cent. where cereals are concerned,
and in many instances a loss of quality also
is by no means uncommon. Recent experience
has shown that with malting barley it is usually
the early-sown crop that scores, while few fail
to appreciate the adverse effect of late sowing
on the plumpness of the oat kernel, to give but
twoexamples. As for potatoes, an examination
of the results of some 40 trials by P. H. Gregory,
of Rothamsted, has shown that delay in planting
unsprouted setts, even in April, means a loss of
yield of 3% hundredweights per acre for each
day’s delay.

For optimum returns of sugar-beet early
sowing followed by early singling is clearly
essential, and extensive work on this aspect of
the problem has revealed that up to one ton of
beet per acre may be lost for each week that
singling is neglected beyond the stage when the
first pair of rough leaves are developed. Flax is
yet another crop with which early sowing pays
by returning a higher quality product. In times
of stress, and especially amid the present diffi-
culties of adverse weather conditions and
shortage of labour, the urge for timeliness must
appear a counsel of perfection; yet it is well to
remember that all the available evidence points
to the necessity for sowing our farm crops as
soon as soil and climatic conditions permit.

Nor can one assume that with cereals sown
in the autumn there is more latitude in sowing
time, for here-again it is generally the early-sown
crop that develops the most vigorous rooting
system, capable of carrying the plant safely
through the rigours of an English winter. One
is apt to overlook the supreme importance of
strength in plants too often, for disease and
insect pests are usually lurking in readiness to
attack the sickly seedling, which falls an easy
prey. Confirmation of this is surely contained
in the control measures advocated for so many
of the diseases and pests to which opr farm crops

Ts evidence of both practical experience

IN WEED CONTROL THE “KILL” DEPENDS UPON THE TIME

are subject. Time and
again one comes across
the advice to aim at
good cultivation, wise
and generous manuring,
correct seed rate and
optimum time of sow-
ing in order to “secure
@ strong plant capable
of resisting attack.”
While the effect of
late sowing may be’
fairly apparent with
cereals and root crops,
it is often masked with
forage crops because the
profuse foliage makes
the assessment of yield
in the field very difficult.
Nevertheless, the same
importance must be
placed on time of sow-
ing, and marrowstem kale is a good example to
quote in this connection. This crop is without
doubt one of the greatest potential yielders of
stock food that we grow, but in many instances
it fails to attain that full potential because it
is sown in May instead of March. In trials
carried out in Yorkshire over a three-year period
the following results were obtained by sowing at
fortnightly intervals from March to May :

Yield per acve.
Time of sowing. Tons.
March : 2nd week se 26.7
” 4th ,, aoe w ~24.8
April: 2nd ,, eau 21.5
” 4th rh aoe o. 18.9
May: 2nd ,, Sea -. «17.8
5 4th ,, 16.1

Identical treatment was given in all cases except
as regards the time of sowing, which varied as
shown. Moreover, the plots were dressed
periodically to ensure freedom from attack by
the turnip fly, which would have seriously
affected the results.

Why is there a general hesitation about
sowing early? The fear in most farmers’ minds
seems to be the possibility of damage by frost.
It is true that frost may administer a set-back to
a very forward crop, which, should the crop be
sugar-beet or mangolds, might be revealed at
a later date by the incidence of bolting. To
offset this danger a non-bolting strain of beet
can be selected for the earliest sowings, while the
trouble with mangolds need not cause much
concern, since they will be fed in any case, and if
the precaution is taken of snipping off the seed-
stalks as soon as they appear these routs will

DELAY IN SOWING CANNOT BE COUNTERACTED BY
MORE GENEROUS FERTILISING

attain almost normal proportions. No one
would gainsay the seriousness of late frost to the
early potato crop, but growers are so well versed
in the vagaries of their local climate that,
generally speaking, only an exceptional spell of
weather catches them napping.

From time to time one comes across late-
sown crops where efforts have been made to
offset the loss of time by more generous fertilis-
ing and heavier seedings. Evidence from trials at
Rothamsted and elsewhere shows that delays in
sowing cannot be counteracted in this way. On
the question of seed rates, indeed, itis fairly safeto
say that more crops suffer from over-sowing than
from under-sowing so far as spring varieties are
concerned. The problem is rather different with
autumn-sown crops, where heavier seed rates
act as an insurance against the more adverse
conditions of weather and soil, conditions that
tend to worsen as the year advances.

An aspect of timeliness frequently over-
looked concerns the timing of production, The
problem of catering for the lean periods of the
year is ever present, especially on dairy farms
now that the safety-valve of imported concen-
trated foods no longer functions. The prospect
of a late spring in the face of dwindling supplies
of fodder, and the problem of the surmmer
drought, need the greatest care in planning to
ensure, so far as possible, that provision is made
to cover the dangerous periods. Spring grazing
can be secured by the appropriate treatment of
a well-sheltered, well-drained pasture the
previous autumn, or by sowing a break of rye or
Italian ryegrass specially for the purpose.

Those who appreciate the need for early
sowing of autumn cereals frequently obtain
adequate spring kecp on the so-called “ winter
proud” crops, and to-day, as a result of recent
experiences, an increasing number of farmers
regularly sow their wheat or oats very early in
the autumn on land in good heart with the
specific intention of encouraging a forward
growth suitable for grazing off. Provided that
the land is dry and the stock, cattle or sheep,
are not allowed to graze ton hard into the hearts
of the plants, the yield of grain is not likely to
be depressed appreciably, provided the grazing
is completed before the end of April. In seme
instances later grazing than this is possible, but
each man must be guided in the light of prevail-
ing conditions and former experience.

The main point to note is that level grazing
should be secured, for this means level ripening
and, moreover, since the young green shoots of
the cereal are rich in protein and liable to cause
scouring, only limited periods of grazing should
be allowed. After grazing off, a top dressing of
nitrogenous fertiliser can be given with every
prospect that it will enhance the yield of grain
without increasing the risks of lodging, since one
effect of grazing off in this way is to reduce the
length of the straw.

The problem of drought still remains as one
of the major anxieties on many farms in low
rainfall areas, but here again well-timed produc-
tion will act as an insurance. Maize, lucerne and

OF APPLICATION . sainfoin, either as pure crops or in mixtures with

568

a «drought-resisting grass
such as cocksfoot and mix-
tures of the cereals with
vetches, are all useful in
this connection. It is im-
portant that sowing dates
or the treatment meted out
to the crop should be such
that the result is obtained
when required. Nurseless
leys sown in March will give
vatuable keep in the July-
August period, but when not
sown until May or June,
they. themselves may suc-
cumb to prolonged = dry
weather. An established ley,
especially when the domi-
nant plant is cocksfoot or
lucerne, may have an early
cut for hay or silage taken

and then, after top-dress-

ing with «a nitrogenous LAND.
fertiliser, can be relied upon

tu give highly nutritious

feed for grazing during a drought ino high
summer, A timothy and giant white clover

mixture, on the other hand, shvuld be grazed
only very tightly in the spring, preferably with

DOG-LEG

golfing ties there is one which | prize alike

for its rarity and its tranquil prettiness. It
has stripes of a darker and a lighter green, and
between the stripes runs a thin line of gold, or
to be less consciously picturesque, of yellow. It
is an emblematica! tie, the dark green represent-
ing the fir-trees, the light green the fairways,
and the yellow the mimosa. I have never met
anyone else wearing it, but [ live in hopes of
being some clay accosted by an indignant
Anglo-Indian gentleman who will say to me,
“Sir, are you aware that vou are pirating the
colours of the Kodai Kanal Golf Club?” Then
drawing myself to my full height, L shall reply,
“Sir, are you aware that
1 am an honorary member
of that) distinguished
club?”

And so Iam, though
Lhave never been to India
(Kodai Kanal is a hill
station for Madras} and
am afraid I never shall
now, But T mention my
tie, not out of mere pride
or vanity, but by way of
introduction to this photo-
graph of the Kodai Kanal
course, Whether or not
the tie be pretty, no one
will deny that this course
is superiatively so, and
1 believe that, like the
heroine in many an old
novel, it is as good as it is
pretty. Some years ago,
hefore the war, there were
published in these pages
photographs of the course,
and now my friend there,
whom { take to be its
Grand Panjandrum and
who watches over it with
passionate affection, has
sent me this new and
charming picture.

That picture in its
turn introduces in a rather
roundabout manner my
subject of dog-leg holes. It
is likewise in a rather
fraudulent manner, but I
appeal to the reader; did
he not at a first glance say,
“What a lovely dog-leg
hole ?”’ Did he not imagine
that the fairway ran down
that secret valley to the
right and then turn to the
left for a second shot to

aera my not inconsiderable collection of

THE

COUNTRY LIFE--MARCH 28,

THE EFFECT OF FROST IN
LAND PLOUGHED A

MONTH AFTER FROST
BEFORE THE FROST

young cattle, so that practically the full growth
is left in reserve for the danger period, If such
a time does not arise, the insurance crop can be
made into hay or silage, preferably the latter,

he played to the green, or rather the “brown,”
in the middle of the photograph? Well, in fact
it does not. Ata second glance the reader will
see a tee in the foreground, from which a single
shot will reach the “brown,”’ [t is doubtless a
very attractive short hole, and I daresay that
valley serves some other and excellent purpose,
but I cannot help feeling a little disappointed,
for, to all appearances, it would make the
prettiest dog-leg in all the world.

T wonder who first called a hole with a bend
in its course by the name of dog-leg, and when
that name was first used, | am almost sure it is
not nearly as old as Lam as a yuifer and was
never heard in my boyhood. For that matter,

EIGHTH HOLE OF THE KODAI KANAL GOLF COURSE

PRODUCING A TILTH ON CLAY

1947

when it can be held in reserve
for late winter or even the
following summer.

Other examples of the
importance of timeliness come
to mind. Those who farm
heavy, intractable clay will
appreciate the beneficial action
of frost in breaking down the
clods when it comes alter
ploughing. In weed control
the time of application of the
killing agent is all-impor-
tant; if administered earty
it may well result in a 100
per cent. elimination of the
offender, whereas if the opera-
tion is late it may at best
serve only to administer a
check to the weeds, which
continue to compete with
the crop for light, air and

AND (right) plant food, Such instances,
: and many more one might

quote, give plenty of foud

for thought at a time when plans ure

afoot to transform the inactivity of winter
into the hum of preparation for another
season.

A Golf Commentary by BERNARD DARWIN

with one or two notable exceptions, 1 don’t
think that the thing itself existed. Holes, like
courses, went straight forward. | fancy that
the deliberate making of dog-leg holes came with
the use of heather and fir-tree country, on which
a piece of heather or woodland jutting out on to
the course can make so natural and artistic a
bend. It is hardly so easy, I think, to make
a good dog-leg on the open country of the links.
True, the older architects might have used
a sand-hill for the same purpose, but when they
found a sand-hill they generally insisted on
a frontal attack on it,
At any rate on the vid classic courses T
cannot think of many holes of this type. One
jumps instantly to mind,
the first hale at Hoylake,
when the existence of the
famous out of bounds
“Vield’’ makes for the
most acute of all dog-legs;
the phiyer turns at a right-
angle after his tee shot.
Then there is the fourth
or Pow Burn at Prestwick,
a truly great hole, where
the player must turn to
the right alter his drive
and is tempted to cut the
corner as {ine as possible
one of the great qualities
of a dog-leg. Another was
the old 18th at Muirfield,
with a very sharp turn to
the right and an alarming
little pitch, but that has
Jong since vanished, with
the changes in the course.
A Thave no doubt there
* were athers-- the High hale
guing out at St. Andrews,
for instance, before the
present straight road to the
green was practicable; but
there were not many,
Oddly enough I remember
two on one of my earliest
loves among courses, that
of the Royal Eastbourne
Club where I used to play
in my summer holidays
from school. One (f am
thinking of nine-hole days)
was the fourth with its
drive over the then famous
chalk-pit. After the tee
shot one turned to the
right, if one was brave
enough, and played a tre-
mendous, blind shot over
part of the wood called

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 28,

Paradise, to the green below the sham Greek
temple. I am bound to add that I was not old
or strong or brave enough, and as a rule sneaked
round fora five. The other hole was the cighth,
where the course wound round the edge of
Compton Place, with its sunk fence and stone
wall, and the ideal tee shot soared over the
trees at the corner, and the coward, “doubting
in his abject spirit,” again sneaked round, wide
on the left.

Neither was a very great hole, perhaps,
though I have an ancient fondness for them;
but at any rate both had this essential quality
of a good dog-leg, that the bold and skilful
player, who successfully took a chance, gained a
great deal, probably as much as a whole stroke.
That is one of the great merits and charms of
such holes; they do their best to make golf what
John Low never tired of saying that it ought to
be, “‘a contest of risks."" The risk successfully
taken gives not only a thrill of pleasure but a
solid profit. Another merit that they possess,
especially on a seaside course, is in the variation

and so in the varied use of the wind. At that
first hole at Hoylake, for instance, the wind
may be trying hard to make you slice your tee
shot into the Cop; then round the corner it
blows you straight home in a friendly way.
Conversely it may help you to a long drive witha
hook from the tee and then turn into a directly
opposing enemy for the second. It isa fine hole
for'the player who can make full use of the
different winds, and John Low—I must quote
him again—wrote that to see Harold Hilton
play it, using both winds, was ‘‘to see golf in
its fullness.”’

Then, leaving aside these sterner and more
exacting virtues, the dog-leg hole has as a rule
charming good looks. Hew wonderfully pretty
is the street of some old town, which has a bend
in it! Tewkesbury comes into my head as
a lovely example of a winding street, and the
High at Oxford owes some of its beauty to the
same cause, The same kind of beauty, in its
own way, belongs to a dog-leg hole. Perhaps
the player cannot from the tee see round the

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corer, and then when he has successfully
rounded it a new vista opens before him.
The eighth at Addington occurs to me; that
is Old Addington, for 1 su the New
Course is now dotted with hideous ‘' pre-fabs "—
too painful a subject to touch upon. From the
tee we go as near as we dare to a fir-tree and,
once we are past it, we turn left and there is the
green smilingly awaiting our second shot in the
distance. The twelfth at Worplesdon has some-
thing of the same charm; sv has the sixth at
Aldeburgh, and so—but there are so many and
the reader can fill up the sentence, as the
cookery books say, "to taste.”

I look back with some complacency on
the one dog-leg that I ever laid out myself,
on the Vardar marshes, with its tee shot
over the railway line, cutting off as big a
chunk as one could chew, and then a left
turn to the green along a narrow strip of
turf between railway and road, It really
was a good hole, but it had not, I freely
admit, the beauty of Kodai Kanal.

CORRESPO E

SALMON AND THE
APPRENTICE

From Sir Douglas McCraith
IR,—Apropos of Mr. Kingsland

Jutsum’s letter, in your issue of
March 7, about the serving of salmon to
apprentices in Tudor times, if he can
give information as to the where-
abouts of an apprentice indenture
limiting the serving of salmon, he will
have ended a search that has been
going on for many generations.

The late H. T. Sherringham for
many years made a standing offer of
£50 to anyone who could produce one.
I have repeatedly challenged the
statements of those who allege that
they know someone who has seen one,
but no evidence has ever been forth-
coming. Once I thought I was hot on
the scent, when I heard one had been
seen in Limerick, but it could not be
found.

1 do not believe that one exists,
and I am sceptical whether one ever
did exist. Is Mr. Jutsum certain that
what he saw was not what purported
to be an extract, and net an original?
-Doucras McCraita, Normanton
Grange, Plumtree, Nottingham.
SEARCH FOR A DOCUMENT
Sir,--For well over a century the
opinion has been prevalent that
salmon were once so common in our
gteat rivers that clauses were inserted
in the indentures of apprentices to the
effect that it should not be served a§
food more than twice, or thrice, a
week. In order to prove once and for
all the existence or non-existence of
such clauses, I am willing to offer £10
to the first person who can produce an
original document_containing one.-—
STEPHEN Birp, Chairman of The
Shooting Times, 74-76 Temple Cham-
bers, Temple Avenue, E.C.4.

GROWING MAIZE IN
BRITAIN
Sin,---With reference to recent

remarks in Country Lire about the
lack of maize for the feeding of pigs
and poultry in Britain, both Major
Jarvis and, perhaps not surprisingly,
your South African correspondent, Mr.
A, Gordon Taylor, seem unaware that
maize can be grown very satisfac-
torily in many parts of this country.

During recent years considerable
experiment with maizes has been
undertaken by the Agricultural
Research Council, and I myself carried
out a large number of trials with seed
imported for this body, of which the
most promising varieties were in the
“flint” ‘oup (Zea mais tndurata).
Majizea of this group are, of course,
vastly different both in nature and
handling from the so-called sweet
com rr mais saccharata), which is
‘grown as a vegetable.

But the most successful variety
seems to be an open pollinated hybrid
which I tried out some years ago

NDENC

No. 57, HIGH STREET, WINCHESTER; A FINE 18th-CENTURY
FACADE

Sec letler: A Georgian Shop-frunt

and which is now on the market as
Golden Bounty. This maize is sown
direct into fertile ground as soon as the
latter has warmed up {about mid- to
late May), and the cobs can be left to
tipen off on the standing crop until

ovember. In well-grown crops I
find that it produces cobs with 27-30
rows of seed and an average of four
cobs per plant, though one grower
recently showed me cobs 12 inches
long from his last year’s crop. I have
grown this maize, about which I wrote
a small brochure for the Roya! Horti-
cultural Society in 1946, in plots of up
to § acres. I have been feeding my
own poultry for two years on both
meal and grain from such maize, and
it has been a great boon during cold
weather.

My only trouble at any time has
been from wireworm in the early:stage
after germination and rooks at the
same period, but both these difficulties
can, of course, be avoided. I was,
indeed, surprised at the very excellent
results obtained by some growers in
the appalling conditions of last year.—
E.F Hurt, Towcester, Northamptonshire

A THAMES-SIDE RIGHT
OF WAY?

From Str Jocelyn Bray.
Str,—-With reference to the Editorial
Note in your issue of March 14 on the
Thames towpaths, the Thames Con-
servancy Board have in noway saddled
the local authorities with the expense
of maintaining them. They have no
power to do this.

At the conference on February 28
over which I presided I made it
abundantly clear that no one was com-

mitting himself to anything, and in
the letter calling the conference this
was made clear.

The resolution that was passed
merely expressed the view that a right
of way along the Thames was desirable,
if it could be carried out. A committee
was appointed to go into all details
and to see if and how the scheme could
be carried out, This committee will
then report to the various local
authorities and it will then be oj
to each local authority to decide what
it will do..~JocELYN Bray, Chairman
of the Thames Conservancy Board, The
Mill House, Newark, Ripley, Surrey.

DECLINE OF RED DEER
IN SCOTLAND
Str,—In his letter accompanying the
photograph of a fourteen-pointer stag
‘om Mar Forest (March 7), Mr. G.
Kenneth Whitehead states that he has
heard of another two being shot last
season, There arc a good many
more stiif at large in Scottish deer
forests, but not enough for the number
of deer. There is no doubt that the
Scottish red deer has declined in both
weight and quality of antlers during
the nt century, though in well-
controlled forests a far better class of
head can be seen than in those where
little thought is given to the better-

ment of the stock.

Apart from any change in feeding
there are a number of factors respon-
sible for this falling off in quality.
In many districts the deer are more
numerous than they were 100 years
ago, so that quality is sacrificed to
quantity. , the short lease or
yearly letting of forests has caused

much harm. For example, a tenant is
allowed twenty stags in a season, and
instead of being content with three
really good heads he must have twenty
good ones, and gives little thought to
the old six-pointer or "switch horn,”
which is left to breed for another year.
The stalker knows this only too well,
but his guaranteed wage is so small
that he can’t afford to voice his
opinion too strongly,

After the rutting the stalkers
must kill a number of hinds, and they
always choose strong yeld hinds,
which may have a calf next year,
instead of undersized and scraggy
beasts, which are left to pass on Ai
their faults. A farmer docsn’t sell his
best rams or cast his strongest ewes
before they reach the end of their use-
fulness; he weeds out his stock and
improves it. Surely it is the same with
deer; but many forest owners do not
act upon, even if they realise, this very
basic principle—}, C. CrarK, Argyll-
shire.

A GEORGIAN SHOP-FRONT

Strz,—Apropos of the article Some
Georgian Shop-fronts, in your last
issue, you may care to publish the
enclosed photograph of a fine 18th-
century fagade in High Street, Win-
chester. The gtaceful bow-fronted
windows look out from the offices of a
newspaper established over a hundred
and seventy yearsago.—K, W., Bristol,

THE SHOOTING OF MAN-
EATING TIGERS

Sir,—-May I suggest an answer to
Brigadier Gatehouse's recent question
in Country Lirz why the Indian
Government does not arm the head-
men of villages with modern riftes
against man-eating tigers?

Shooting of a man-eating tiger is
a whole-time job. Head-men of
villages have many duties to perform
and could not, therefore, give all their
time to tracking down and destroy-
ing man-eaters. The activities of
these beasts, and in fact all tigers,
cover a fairly wide range of country,
The man-eater is the more difficult to
track down because of his almost
uncanny knowledge of the ways of
men coupled with his devilish cun-
ning. Every report brought in by
villagers ‘has to be studied, and every
clue followed up for days, even weeks,
and sometimes for months. Head-
men could not spare the time for this,

A man-eating tiger rarely, if ever,
kills in the same spot on two suc-
cessive nights. A sleeping figure may
be carried off in the dead of night from
one village; the next night a village
some miles away may be raided; the
next victim may be a forest wood-
cutter; a Jonely mail-runner will be
the next to be seized; or the last of
a file of natives wending their way
home from a day at the market along
a jungle path late in the evening, and

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so on. It is the uncertainty and
rapidity of their movements that
make it so dangerous and difficult to
track down and destroy these scourges.

In every village in India of any
size there is always a local shikaree
who has a licence to carry fire-arms.
These weapons are usually of the
muzzle-loading variety. It might be
said in some quarters that a muzzle-
loading gun would be of little use in
meeting such a dangerous animal as
a tiger. To that 1 would reply that
before the advent of breech-loading
Tifles and smokeless powder the groat
stalwarts of the Indian jungles of the
past did all their shooting with
weapons that we are now pleased to
call obsolete.

Rather than arm head-men with
modern weapons, T think it would be
better for the Government of India to
employ a certain number of profes-
sional shikaris. These shikaris could
be sent to districts to destroy tigers

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A COPPER BADGE THOUGHT
TO BE A _ PASS GIVING A
COMMONER PERMISSION TO
USE THE ROYAL ROADS
See letter: The King's Private Reads

that begin to show an undue liking for
the salts in the human blood.

It is a fallacy to think that man-
eating tigers are generally old animals
whose physical powers have 30
declined they are unable to track down
and kill game and cattle and so take
to killing human beings for food,
because they find them so much easier
to kill. There are many instances on
record of man-cating tigresses bring-
ing their cubs up on human flesh, and
these cubs when fully grown take
naturally to killing human beings for
food. In the Hazaribagh distnct of
Bihar some years ago a wood-cutter
was seized in broad daylight by a tiger
that was in full possession of all its
strength and beauty, and by neo means
the mangy animal that popular belief
says man-eating tigers arc.

As tegards Major Jarvis’s ques-
tion, in your issue of February 14, why
the author of The Man-Eaters of
Kumaon went after a dangerous man-
cating tiger with only three rounds of
ball ammunition for his heavy rifle,
lcan only say that it was an extremely
risky thing to do.

A DRAWING-ROOM WI FURNISHINGS TYPICAL OF THE 'NINETIES

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 28,

No one has the right to gamble
with the lives of his beaters, or to fail
to take precautions for his own safety.
Nothing should be left to chance
against the world’s most savage and
dangerous animal. Yet all too
frequently in the past we have scen
shikaris exhorting their beaters to
enter heavy undergrowth where a
wounded tiger might be lying up.
There is first an ominous growi
followed in the twinkling of an eye by
the maddened roar of a charging tiger,
and before anything can be done a
brave but simple soul has paid with
his life for the folly of the man who
sent him in. Such shikaris instead of
getting away with it by the payment
of a few rupces as compensation to the
dead man’s relatives ought to be
indicted for manslaughter.

The only adequate way to protect
one's beaters is to have guns spaced
every few yards inthe hands of
reliable orderlies. This precaution
when one is following up a wounded
tiger is frequently not taken, with dire
results —-F. R. Haves, 5, Durand
Gardens, S.W9.

THE KING'S PRIVATE
ROADS

$S1r,--I have recently come across a
copper badge, a sketch of which I
enclose, dated 1737 and_ inscribed
The King’s Private Roads; but in the
road histories that I have I can find
no mention of such roads. Perhaps
one of your readers can tell me which
they were.

I presume the badge is a pass
giving a commoner permission to use
these royal roads, and that the
number 101] stamped on it is the
number of the pass. Between the
date letters are two initials, inter-
twined, which look like J.R. A. G,
Wane (Major), Ash Cottage, Bentley,
Hampshire.

ADRAWING-ROOM OF THE
*NINETIES

Sir,--In view of the iilustration of
a Victorian drawing-room in your
issue of February 7, the enclosed
photographs of a small country
drawing-room that my sisters and
I furnished in 1895 may interest your
readers. Tu my mind this interior is
more typical of that date than the one
you published, which I consider remin-
iscent of the ‘80s of my childhood.

Tn fairness to the taste of the end
of Queen Victoria's reign, I should like
to point out that by then the appre-
ciation of antiques and beautiful
furniture was in full swing, inspired by
the many curiosity shops, store-
houses of delight.—F. F. Lurtrext,
Edington Manor, Bridgwater, Somerset.

+ A Drawing-room of the ‘Nineties

1947

HEVA CAKE AND
HAVERCAKE

Six,—-With reference to
Mr. Dain’s letter in yout
issue of February 7 about
heva, or heavy, cake,
housewives in the West
Riding of Yorkshire
make a cake called
havercake—a_ thin,
flaked-vatmeal cake
baked quickly on a hot
griddle, dried as wanted
and eaten with butter
thickly spread on it.

In the Cumberland
countryside around here
“hava’ is a word used
commonly for oatmeal.
—W. R. Bootn, School
House, Cackermouth,
Cumberiand.

(The cake described
by our correspondent,
from which the Duke
of Wellington’s (West
Riding) Regiment gained
their nickname of The
Havercake Lads, is
quite distinct from the
heva cake of Cornwall,
being a form of oat-cake
and as light as the latter
is heavy.—Ep.}

THE HUER’S CRY
Sik,--I think Mr. Dain
is misinformed as to the
meaningoftheword huer,
and also in his belief that
huer and hevva are corruptions of the
same word.

According to the Cornish diction-
ary compiled by Mr. Morton Vance,
“hevva” means ‘swarming, flocking
or shoaling of bees, birds or, fish’’;
hence the cry ‘‘hevva”’ when a shoal
of pilchards is seen by the huer. On
the other hand, ‘‘hua”’ is a verb mean-
ing ‘to raise a cry.’’ As English
gtadually replaced Cornish it is not
difficult to trace the connection to the
“‘huer”’ as the person who raised the
cry. There are many similar anglicised
Cornish words still in common use.

T can remember when every Cornish
cliff had its huer, and every cove its
Seine boats. The latter were gradually
ousted by the sailing drifters which, be-
fore the engine killed everything, could
be seen as a town oflights from Rameto
Land's End during the season.—C, 1’,
Jerram, Pengwedhen,Helford,Cornwalt.

IN GEORGIAN YORK
Sik,~—One of the few houses in York
to retain its flambeau extinguisher is
No. 23, Petergate. I enclose a photo-
graph of the doorway, which provides
one of the most charming glimpses of
Georgian York.

1650.

No 23, PETERGATE, YORK, STILL WITH
ITS FLAMBEAU

EXTINGUISHER

See letter: In Geargian York

Few people know the history of
this residence—a history which is by
mo means confined to the days of sedan,
chairs and link-hoys. Until about
1867 the house belonged to the
Corporation of Subchanters and Vicars
Choral, but even during its subsequent
period of private ownership an
occasional ecclesiastical use has been
found for it, namely, at the enthrone-
ment of the Archbishop of York, At
the late Dr. Temple’s enthronement,
for example, he and his retinue of
clergy occupied several rooms at
this conveniently situated house—
G. BERNARD Woon, atwdon, Leeds,

ANOTHER GEORGE Ill
TEA-POT
Sir,-—It may be of interest to you to
know that I possess a tea-pot and
stand of the same shape as that illus-
trated in your issue of March 7, ‘The
decoration is, however, different.
Instead of the scroll design round the
top of the pot, mine carries garlands
of wreaths and has a similar, but much
narrower, band closer to the bottom.
The rim and legs of my stand are
very similar to those of the one you
illustrated, but it has side, instead of
bottom, bracing.

My tea-pot and stand has the London hall-mark
for 1794 with maker’s mark “P.S."" (Paul Storr?),
It has a crest on both sides and ha:
in the family since purchase.--F. M. MonTRESOR
(Brig.), Hampshire.

SARSFIELD OF LUCAN
Str,—With reference to Mr. Christopher Hussey’s
recent article on Lucan House, Co. Dublin, perhaps
a few further remarks concerning the 17th-century
proprietor of the Lucan estate may be of interest to
your readers.

Patrick Sarsfield the elder married Anne O’More,
daughter of the celebrated Rory O’More, and their
*second son, Patrick, was born at Lucan in the year
The Cromwellian régime being installed
effectively in Ireland, Patrick was etlucated in
France, and, passin;
duly became an officer,
William died, and he inherited the Lucan estate.

For the next ten years he was an officer in the
Army of Charles II, after whose death the Duke of
Monmouth made his attempt to seize the Throne
but was defeated at Sedgemvor.
was in command of a regiment of Royalist horse
and took a prominent part in the engagement.

On the outbreak of the Revolution in 1688,
Sarafield accompanied his sovereign—King James
II—into exile and landed at Kinsale in March of the
following year. He was at once given a high Army
command and, together with Colonel Simon Luttrell,
was elected M.P. for the County of Dublin in King
James's Irish Parliament of May, 1689.
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paign from the Boyne to Aughrim and the last Iriah

s, I helieve, been

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In 1675 his elder brother

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resistance at Limerick are wet] known,
and are fully admitted even by the
Williamite partisans, Burnet and
Macaulay.

Early in 1691 James II created
Sarsfield Earl of Lucan. In the
autumn of the year, Sarsfield, defend-
ing Limerick against enormous odds,
finally entered into negotiations with
De Cinkel, his noted adversary, which
resulted in the signing of the Articles
of Limerick in October, 1691. It was
laid down, infer alia, that the garrison
was to march out with the full honours
of war and that any who liked could
take service with the French Army,

Sarsfield himself led the way,
choosing to become one of the first of
the wild geese rather than forsake his
sovereign, James II, and acknowledge
William III as king. His loyalty cost
him the forfeiture of the Lucan
property, worth in the currency of the
time £2,000 per annum, many times
less than its value in modern times.

Sarsfield’s alleged remark on the
signing of the Articles of Limerick,
"As low as we now are, change kings
with us and we will fight it over again
with you,” is an invention of Burnet’s;
his is the only “authority” for the
proposition. Sarsfield’s neighbour and
colicague, Colonel Simon Luttrell, of
Luttrelistown, Co. Dublin, by adopt-
ing a similar course of action, likewise
forfeited his ancestral property.—
CHRISTOPER PRESTON, Blackrock, Ca
Dublin, Eire.

[The portrait of Patrick Sarsfield,
Ear) of Lucan, attributed to Charles
Je Brun, which we reproduce, hangs at
Malahide Castle, Co. Dublin, and is the
prope of Lord Talbot de Malahide.
—Ep.

THE TOAD IN THRE ROCK
Strx,--With reference to your remarks
about toads found in solid stone, in
your footnote to the letter about a frag
ina mould (January 17), I remember
quite vividly as a small boy seeing
such a stone on display in a shop win-
dow. The rock, which had come from
a coal mine in Barnsley, was split
cleanly into halves, leaving a dead
toad sitting in its own shape in the
middle, althaugh the finders claim
that it was living when the rock was
first split and died shortly afterwards.
There appeared to be nu crevice
or fissure to obtain air—just a clean
split, and the rock was found yards
deep, not feet deep, as in a quarry.
AS you suggest, frogs and toads
must be extraordinarily tenacious of
life if the toad was indeed alive when
found. Lizards might well be placed
in the same category, according to a
news item of 1818. In the Annals of
Yorkshire, compiled by John Mayhall.
and dated 1818, it is stated : ‘‘A lizard
was found alive in a solid block of
coal, raised from the middle of a seam,
150 yards below the surface of the
earth, in William Fenton, Esg’s. coal
ming, at Wakefield Outwood. It was
. five inches long, of the species
vulgarly called Askers, and on being
exposed to the air it died.’"—Josern
TAYLor, Blue Sell Inn, Belchford,
Horncastle, Lincolnshire.

COUNTRY LIFE— MARCH

PATRICK SARSFIELD, EARL OF LUCAN:
FROM A PORTRAIT BY C, LE BRUN
MALAHIDE CASTLE, CO. DUBLIN.

Sce letter: Sarsfield of .wcan \paxe $70).

BUTTERMILK CHEESE
RECIPE
Sik,—The following recipe for making
buttermilk cheese may be of interest
tu some of your readers.

Take 3% gallons of buttermilk,
let it stand ds hours, then heat to a
temperature of 120°, after which coo}
to about 80°. Next strain it through
a coarse linen cloth and hang it up for
12 hours; after which break up the
curd and add 2% ounces of salt.

Place it in a mould (? of wood)
lined with cloth, and leave to drain
24 hours or longer, then bandage care-
fully and renew the bandages, which
nowadays would be of butter-muslin.
every day or two till it is dry; it should
be ready in about a month.

Take the bandages off when it is
dry enough, and the cheese will
probably cover itself with blue
mould, which dries off when it is
ready for eating —CouNTRYWOMAN,
Co. Dublin, Eire.

FROM JEEP INTO FARM
TRUCK

Stk,—Your farmer readers may be
interested in the enclosed photograph
of a home-made ¥-ton tipping truck.
mounted on the chassis of an ex-U.S.A.
Army jeep. The entire work (ie.,
cutting away the resr portion of the
origina! metal 4-seater body with hack-
saw and chisel, and building and
mounting the truck) was carried out
by unskilled labour, namely, by my
very versatile dairyman in his spare
time. He spent 62 hours on the job.
The necessary timber came from
the surviving joists and floor-boards
of a burnt house; the iron-work
(hinges, stays, etc.) was salved from a
derelict lorry, consigned to the scrap-
heap ten years ago. Beyond the cost

A %-TON TIPPING TRUCK IMPROVISED FROM A JEEP
See letter: From Jeep into Farm Truck

28, 1947

of the jeep, the cash out-
lay involved amounted
to no more than thirty
shillings (includin

fourteen shillings pai

to the local blacksmith
for re-shaping some of
the irons).

The withdrawal of
one pin enables the
truck to be dismounted
bodily from the chassis,
and the jeep can then
be used as a light trac-
tor, apu or which
its double-ratio gears
and optional four-wheel
drive render it eminent-
ly syitable,—J. 0. 3.
ZigGLER, Windwhistle,
Ringwood, Hampshire.

A TOPICAL
INSCRIPTION
Sir,--Dr. Francis J.
Chesterman, an official
of the Bell Telephone
Company of Pennsyl-
vania, during an ad-
dress delivered at Pitts-
burgh in May last,
quoted an inscription
on a tombstone said to
exist in Essex, England,

and dated 1440 :.-

When pictures iook alive with
movement free,
When ships, like fishes, swim

beneath the sea,

When men, outstripping birds, shall
scan the sky,

Then half the world deep drenched
in blood shall hie,

578

or away from the door. If 1 had
boasted a good complexion, I should
have resisted the roasting, but as it
was I resigned myself-—and it had a
good effect, for a grumpy old woman,
who is Queen of Chichester, told me
they had just seen enough of me to
wish to see more, and that I came like
a comet ‘to dazzle and depart.’ Very
pretty that !"—-R. A. Austin Leicn,
veat Abshot, Titchfield, dlampshire.

WESTGATE HOUSE

Str,—In the second of his articles on
Chichester, published on January 17,
Mr. Arthur Oswald refers to Westgate
House, and recalls that when the
road was widened a short while ago
the piers to the original gate were
moved to form one of the entrances to
the new County Council offices, and
a similar pair duplicated to baiance
them on the opposite side.

The original gate piers were sur-
mounted by magnificent carved stone
pineapples, but the present piers have
very modern stone acorns. I wonder
if any of your readers know what
became of the original stone pine-
apples and under whose authority the
were displaced and replaced by such
poor imitations.-_S. W. MgssENcER,
31, Eastern Parade, Southsea, Hampshire.

AT LOGGERHEADS
Sir,—In a recent issue of Country
Lirz, Major Jarvis described his
Breakfast-table Club for birds. I envy
him his nuthatch and long-tailed tit
visitors, Even prolonged snow and
frost does not bring the latter to my
bird-tabie, though the species ix
common enough in the district.

A HEDGE-SPARROW STANDING ITS GROUND AGAINST THE
ATTACK OF A COCK CHAFFINCH
See better: At Loggerheads

The wording is a most remarkable
prophecy, and it would be very
interesting to know where this tomb-
stone is situated, and if the very early
date of 1440 is correct. J was not
aware that any tombstones are in
existence in churchyards with so early
a date, but the stone may be in a
church.

Perhaps some of your readers
could throw more light on the matter.
—H. N. CHAMBERLAINE-BROTHERS,
Winchcombe Abbey, near Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire.

CHICHESTER SOCIETY
150 YEARS AGO

Srr,--Among the papers of my great-
grandmother, Mrs. St. George, I came
across a letter that she wrote after
paying «visit to Lady Lifford, widow
of the “{rish Lord Chancellor, at
Chichester in the year 1797. It gives
a picture of the iccal society at
Chichester at that date which you
may like to print as a pendant to Mr.
Oswald's recent articles on Chichester.

“I dined at three, drank tea at
six, played sixpenny Cassino. Nothing
struck me so much as the ceremonies
of a country town, which resembie
nothing ever seen in London, except
at the drawing-room at St. James's.
Such getting-up and sitting-down.
Such running before you to open the
door, whenever you stir. Such knock-
ing you down to pick up an:
you let fall. Such manual «

exerted to make you sit near the fire’

Major Jarvis comments on the
retiring disposition of the hedge-
sparrow. Occasionally, however, this
bird will stand up for itself, even when
confronted by that redoubtable fighter
a cock chaffinch. In case it may
interest your readers, I enclose a
photograph of one of these encounters.
-——M. S. Woon, Orvest Foot, Winder-
meve, Westmorland.

GAETANO BARTOLOZZI
Stx,—With reference to the portrait of
Gastano Bartolozzi in Mr. G, B.
Hughes's recent article Old English
Wax Miniatures, my great-great-
grandfather, Peltro William Tomkins,
was a pupil of Francesco Bartolozzi,
and therefore family interest has made
the person and works of Francesco
Bartolozzi of peculiar interest to me.
I am consequently prompted to ask
whether Gaetano Bartolozzi was a
kinsmag of Francesco and followed the
same profession.

atil seeing your illustration
I was unaware of a Gaetano Bartolozzi,
and as Francesco Bartolozzi was, and
still is, the acknowledged master of
stipple engraving, it came as a
surprise to see the title Gecrgian
engraver attached to Gaetano. Would

ou kindly enlighten me?—A, W.

‘omKine, Houghton House, Playden,
Sussex,

[Gaetano Bartolozzi, who was
born in 1757 and died in 1821, was the
son.of Francesco Bartolozsi, and was
himself an ver, though nothi
like as celebrated as his father.~-Ep.

874
NEW BOOKS

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 28,

1947

MOUNTAINEERING, NATURE AND TRAVEL

HREE readable, well-illus-

trated and distinctly individual

beoks published recently about
mountaineering or hill-walking are
Mountain Prespect, by Scott Russell
(Chatto and Windus, 18s.}, The Delect-
able Mountains, by Douglas Busk
(Hodder and Stoughton, 21s.) and
Tramping Scottish Hulls, by W. Kersley
Holmes (Eneas Mackay, Stirling, 8s.
6d.). Mr. Russell, who wrote his book
of memories of mountaineering expe-
ditions in New Zealand, Switzerland,
the Arctic, the Karakoram-Himalaya
and elsewhere as an antidote to depres-
sion when a prisoner-of-war in Japan-
ese hands, is a serious student of
botany as well as a mountaineer, and
the atmosphere of exploration and
scientific discovery pervades it almost

as much as does that of moun-
taineoring.
Mr. Busk, on the other hand,

some of whose early exporience was
gained under the agis of the Oxford
University Mountaineering Club,
writes chiefly of mountaineering for
its own sake and of the friendships it
creates. The Pyrenees, the American
Rockies, and the mountains of Persia
as well as of Switzerland are among the
scenes of his exploits, and he tells of
the joy and exhilaration of climbing
them with kindred spirits in an
infectiously cheerful style.

Mr. Kersley Holmes’s bouk is in
un altogether lower key, being a record
of hill-walking rather than moun-
taineering. But whether he is writing
about Ben Nevis and the Cairngorms
or the humble Qchils and Lomonds,
he succeeds in conveying to the reader
something of that strange power of
the hills to call people back to them
again and again. J. KA

FIVE NATURE BOOKS
N five nature books before me-
Our Bird Book by Sidney Rogerson

and Charles Tunnicliffe (Collins, 21s.),
Nature and My Cine-Camera by Oliver
G. Pike (The Focal Press), Watchers
of the Wild by W. R, Calvert (Hutchin-
son, 8s. 6d.), Masterpieces of Bird
Photography by Eric Hosking and
Harold Lowes (Collins, 12s. 6d.), and
The Birds’ Alphabet by Edward Pye-
Smith and William Northend (Temple
8s. 6d.j—we have picture books
iHustrated by camera, brush and
pencil, and books in which the plates
are but a support to the interesting
letterpress. Oxy Bird Book, with its
coloured portraits from the skilled
brush of Mr. Tunnicliffe, comes into
the first category. The many full-page
plates are its striking feature. The
artist’s style is bold and his colour
vivid, almost over-vivid in some cases,
but this no doubt is due to the diffi-
culty of colour reproduction of delicate
tints. However, his many black and
white drawings are a joy and add
much to the value of a book that will
make a delightful present for the bird-
minded boy or girl. a

In Nature and My Cine-Camera,’
Mr. Oliver Pike tells of his experiences
when working with a cine-camera, of
difficulties encountered and how they
were overcome. He also has much to
say about methods of working,
apparatus and so on, Users of a cine-
camera will find this book both helpful
and informative. The illustrations
are interesting, too, in particular the
“frames” from the film of Mr. Edgar
Chance’s famous cuckoo taken when
laying her egg im a pipet’s nest and
removing one of the pipet’s eggs.

Except to provide some excellent
illustrations the camera has no part
in Mr, Calvert's little book, Watchers
of the Wild, which is a series of pen
pictures of wild life, chiefly feathered,
and mostly ohserved in some or
other of the British Isles. The author
writes with a sympathetic and graphic
pen, telling of things seen with the
joy of one who loves his subject.
His

account of rooks mobbing a pair...

of buzzards is indeed lifelike—‘ with-
out the slightest hesitation they
mobbed the intruding buzzards,
swooping and diving, rushing at
them and clamouring all the while.
The big birds swerved and put on
speed. At times their intive
mewings were heard as they cried
their ineffectual protests. They never
once attempted to retaliate... .
Wide they swung to avoid the press.
Up they went, swiftly circling in big,
wide sweeps. The mob of black
aggressors followed hard, like frigates
harrying two stately ships of the line.
Higher and higher climbed the buz-
zards; in ones and twos and threes the
jackdaws and rooks dropped out of
the chase till at last all turned and
flew back to the trees about the squat,
square-towered church.”

In Masterpieces of Bird Photo-
graphy Mr. Hosking and Mr. Lowes
have collected many splendid speci-
mens of camera work among birds
and give us a book of especial interest
to the ornithological photographer.
There are pictures here that he greets
as old friends and new ones that he
studies with closest admiration, but,
alas{ he will not find all his old
friends, for the authors have been
unable tu ubtain copies of some of
those early masterpieces that have
long stood out like milestones on the
road of bird photography. Miss
Turner's water-rail removing its chick
from the nest and Symonds’s amazing
picture of fighting goldfinches—taken
before the war of 1914-18 while plates
and shutters were comparatively slow
—are only mentioned in the letter-
press.

Mr. Northend has depicted in
The Hirds’ Alphabet a number of birds
in drawings of varying merit and
accuracy. His peewit is quite good,
but he has given his kingfisher the
legs and feet of a thrush. However,
the alphabet will be a useful nursefy
book. F.P.

REGENCY BRIGHTON

HE Regency Society of Brighton

and Hove, a local branch of the
Georgian Group formed at the end
of 1945, has recently published a
report on the architecture of the two
towns. Brighton is inseparably asso-
ciated with the Prince Regent, but
many of the fine squares and terraces
are as late as William IV’s reign or
even eatly Victorian, and there are
also a few little known 18th-century
survivals,

‘The Society's Report, copies of
which can be obtained from the
Hon. Secretary, Royal Pavilion
Estate, Brighton (1s.), contains a list
of all the classic streets and buildings
recommended for preservation. To
glance through it is to see how much
of architectural! value Brighton and
Hove possess, and even so the com-
pilers claim to have listed only “the
essential minimum.’’ The reader
misses a map, but some illustrations
are includ among them one of
the charming Hove Manor House,
unnecessarily destroyed in 1936. With

the growing appreciate of Regency

architecture there is good cause for
hope that, having survived aerial
bombardment, the unique character
of Brighton may live through the more
insidious perils of post-war develop-
ment. With the Society’s list before
them the Corporation should look
again at their squares and terraces
before marking them down for destruc-
tion, A.S. O.

A TALE OF TRAVEL
VN these days of dull uniformity it
is refreshing to come across a book
that telis of a life that has been as
varied and distinctive as it has been
adventurous.
‘All Over the World, which is by
Colonel P. T. Etherton (John Long,
18s.), is the story of the travels of

a born globe-trotter and seeker after
excitement during fifty years. Train-
jumping in the United States and
C la, prospecting for gold in
Australia, hunting a man-eating tiger
in India--Colone] Etherton seems to
have run through the whole gamut of
adventure.

Certainly not the least absorbing
chapters of the book are those in
which he describes his service with
Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts during
the South African War, a visit to the
headquarters of the Foreign Legion,
and the background te the Mount
Everest flight of 1933, in the organ-
isation of which he played a con-
spicuous part,

During his travels Colonel
Etherton met many notable person-
alities, of every race and creed, from

the Pope to Hitler, about whom, and
about Goering, he has some interesting
things to say. But though, partly by
virtue of the several important official
positions he held, much of his life has
been spent among the captains and
the kings, during part of it he passed
as an unknown among unknowns, and
the latter period is no less absorbing
than the former. The book, which is-
illustrated with nearly thirty photo-
graphs, ends on a surprisingly soft
note—with an account of a visit to
the island of Lundy in the Bristol
Channel, whither the author went to
seek rest and quiet after the stress and
strain of the war. C.D.

POEMS OF WAR AND PEACE
R. WALTER DE LA MARE'S
long poem, The Traveller (Faber,
7s. 6d), is duubly moving: first,
because of cadences that come, as
ever, from this lifelong master of a
delicate music; second, becanse behind
the allegorical veil is a poet's view of
his pilgrimage through life.
The flux of change. Ay, this poor
Traveller too —
Soon to be dust, though once erect, elate,
From whose clear gaze a flame divine
burned through . . .

The coloured drawings, by John Piper,
however cleverly sophisticated, do not
harmonise with this muse.

Fifty-one Poems, by Mary Webb
(Cape, 5s.), reveal the poet's self; but
we have already had the best of that
self. Yet there are memorable things
here; Heavy Silence ix one, and
Christina Rossetti another, with its dis-
tinguished image of trees that became

Her mendicants for immortality.
joan Hassall contributes fine wood
engravings. a

The balance that the poct must
hold between heart and head is ex-
ceedingly precarious. In Poems Chiefly
Cornish Mr. A. L. Rowse held it; in
Poems of Deliverance (Faber, 7s. 6d.) it
wavers. Alfoxden, for instance, has in
it the seed ofa perfect poem, yet some-
how the flower does not result. Poems
that stand out are Corpus Garden, All
the Birds of Oxfordshire and the poet's
tribute to President Roosevelt :—-
A stay has fallen from the western sky
That lit our fives and lent us hope to be . .
But we are surprised to find Mr. Rowse

borrowing a complete phrase, ‘the
salt estranging sea,’ from an earlier

In Pole Stay (Hutchinson, 63.)
Miss Margaret Elizabeth Rhodes is
capable of clumsinesses, such as
“peace, the prayéd for’; but at her
best she is a delight :——

When in the morning early,
Trees with a maze of boughs most lightly
lace

The sky that has been sleeked and washed
with might,
Cookasashel...
Country sights and sounds chiefly
inspire The House In The Forest, by
Miss Averil Morley (Oxford University

Press, 6s.), Her best poem is perhaps

Stummer:—-

Like a herd of green deer

The bracken, waving slender delicate
horn-lips,

Ran lightly through the wood . . .

In his anthology, Lords of Life
(Rich and Cowan, 15s.), Mr. Derek Gil-
pin Barnes welcomes poems about
animals as animals, not as creatures
sicklied o’er with the sentimentalities
of man. Here are known pieces by
known poets, and also desirable new-
comers such as Dorothy L. Savers's
War Cat and Walter Meade’s Mouse.
The compiler's own poem sets his
note:—

They telime Death's a dawn~-and not
disaster,
But—shall I hear the thrushes when |
wake ?
Miss Kathleen Gardiner’s engravings
are wholly in keeping.
VLE.

HORSE SHOWS

URLEW (Mrs. Phyllis Hinton)

has produced in Showing Your
Horse (Sylvan Press, 12s. 6d.) a very
readable and informative book about
shows generally as well as showing,
for her range is wider than the title
indicates, Fhe information given in
chapters 8 to 17 is likely to be of
permanent value to those aspiring to
shine in the show world of horses.
Mrs. Hinton knows her subject both
practically and theoretically, and few
will quarrel with what she says, least
of all that on the subject of prelimin-
ary training, and conduct in the ring.
It is to be hoped, however, that in
later editions chapters 8 to 17 will be
expanded with information about
personal organisation for shows, pre-
paration of saddlery, what to bring
to shows—-what one might cajl the
general production details which are
an essentia] part of good and successful
showing. This could well be done at
the expense of chapters on person-
alities, equine and human, the first
post-war season and Dublin Show,
the interest value of which, although
undeniable, is ephemeral.

Shousing Your Horse is not only
a much-needed addition to modern
horse literature, but is an excellent
piece of book production as well.

cC, E.G. H.

A FRUIT-GROWERS’ GUIDE

R. RAYMOND BUSH is not

only a successful commercial
fruit grower, he is also an author who
can coat the often unpalatable pill of
good advice with the sugars of wit and
wisdom, His Fruit Growing Outdoors
(Faber, 18s.) is not a new work, but
a reprint, as a single volume, of his
three successful Penguin handbooks
Apples; Pears, Quinces and Stone
Fruits, and Soft Fruit Growing, Addi-
tional chapters have been written to
bring the volume right up to date with
scientific findings and the number of
illustrations has been greatly increased,
though at the last moment judging by
the errata slip which lists eleven cor-
tections to captions. That is perhaps
the only adverse criticism that could
be made, for it is a thoroughly compre-
hensive and up-to-date guide to fruit
growing, delightful to read and
remarkable for the absence of technical
jargon which so often puzzles inex-
perienced peaple.

One chapter on the Whys and
Wherefores of Spring Frosts should
certainly be read by all intending fruit
gtowers if only to show them how
utterly wrong most preconceived ideas
are, for it is not only ‘those fellows
at the Royal Academy” who have
their orchards in a valley, despite Mr.
J. K. Robertson Scott's statement in
a typical and amusing foreword. But
frost is only one problem; Mr. Bush
has dealt with them all.

te D. T. MacF,

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Reviews by HOWARD SPRING

18S ELIZABETH JENKINS’S

book, Young Enthusiasts

(Gollancz, 8s. 6d.) is called
a novel, but I should not call it one
myself, The cook’s ingredients laid
out on the kitchen table before selec-
tion, rejection, decision as to much of
this and little of that, before kneading,
compounding, fusing, baking: these
are not a cake, What Miss Jenkins
gives us is as attractive a set of
ingredients as I have come upon for
a long time, but, I repeat, she has not
produced a cake.

“I have had experience,” the
author says in a note, “of two pro-
&ressive schools. The school described
in this book is not a picture of either.”
If it is not a picture of a particular
progressive school, it is at any rate

of the intellectual faculties. Many of
them did not learn easily because they
had not the time nor the ability to
listen. Apologists of the modern age
claim that the young think for them-
selves. I was not sure that the whole-
sale adoption of crude political
opinions argued a power of thinking
for yourself,"

The author's subject was English,
and J was attracted by her methods of
teaching. She waged a valiant battle
against the invasion of our speech by
the worst sort of film jargon and news-
paper English. ‘Many children, left
to themselves, were incapable of
writing; ‘He planned it,’ or ‘He
thought of it," They instinctively
wrote : ‘He planned on doing it,’ or
‘He thought it up.’ It comes from the

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a picture of the best sort of co-educa-
tion. It is clearly a description of the
essence of experience, even though it
may not be a description of details of
experience; and it is therefore interest-
ing to find Miss Jenkins writing at the
end: But so long as a living is to be
made by scrubbing ttoors, nothing
would induce me to work again in a
schook,””

PORTRAIT OF A DAY-SCHOOL
The scheal we are given in the
book is a day-schooi on the outskirts
of an industrial town of northern
England. We are shown every detail
of the day's work: we are given
innumerable portraits of staff, childrea,
governors and parents. We follow
some of the children and some of the
staff into their homes. We attend
meetings of the ‘parents’ tnion,"’ and
now and then we are treated to little
essays on this and that patched into
the narrative. There is one, for
example, beginning on page 92, on
sexual behaviour in co-educational
schools, and another, beginning on
page 186, on the place of examinations
in education. Either could be lifted
out and. used as a paper in an educa-
tional magazine. But all these
interesting and attractive bits and
pieces add up not to a novel but to
what (if one may use the so popular
modern word) might be more properly
called a “documentary” study.

This being so, it is more important
to call attention to Miss Jenkins’s
opinions than to anything else in the
book. Take this, for example : ‘The
change in mental age from what I
thought I remembered of my own
childhood was marked. I should say
that it consisted in an immense
development of practical ability in
anything to do with machinery, a
much increased consciousness of the
adult world, particularly in the poli-
tical aspect, and an abrupt declension

Americans, but that is only to say
that the Americans succumbed to the
infection first. if we had been in our
original state of vigour and initiative we
should not have been infected by them."
t think the phrase I have put into
italics is most important. For myself,
I should not have passed some of Miss
Jenkins’s own expressions : “Pass up,””
when she means ‘overlook’ (page 149)
r “Waving a crush on a film star”
(page 143). However, she has given
us a hook that is lively and readable
and full of things to think about.

ODYSSEYS OF PERILS

Hugh Dormer was a young officer
in the Irish Guards. Behind him were
Ampleforth and Oxford. He was only
twenty when the war broke out. He
remained in England with an
armoured battalion of his regiment
until 1942, and then he volunteered
for a dangerous job. This was to be
dropped, with a few other men under
his command, from an aeroplane into
occupied France. There they were to
try to destroy important industrial
works. Finally, he rejoined his batta-
lion fur the invasion of Normandy.
and he was killed in action, Hugh
Dormer’s Diaries (Jonathan Cape,
8s. Gd.) are a record of his adventures
that he left in his mother's keeping.

Three operations are recorded in
the diaries, The first failed. It was
too difficult te carry out. The second,
after all the nerve-racking prepara-
tion, the resigning of himself to
probable death, was abandoned
because the enemy got wind of what
was to happen. The third was a
second, and this time successful,
attempt on the factory aimed at in the
first. From both the first and the
third, the return to England had to be
the arduous journey down to the
Pyrenees, over them at dead of night,
and through Spain and Portugal, each
an Odyssey of peril and endurance.

—_

But many other men have done these
things and written about them, if few
have written with Hugh Dormer's
spare, telling prose. If only for the
descriptions of the fantastic journeys
~-pursued by bloodhounds, tortured
by wind and weather, hungry, ragged,
ut the last gasp of human endurance—
these pages would repay reading.

But the important thing is not
this. The important thing is the state
of mind of this young adventurer. He
refers more than once to religious
martyrs, and there seems to be no
doubt that his work was a conscious
acceptance of the possibility of martyr-
dom, “On my last night we drove
over together to Ampleforth and
dined in the silence of the monks’
tefectory and listened to the plain
chant of Vespers and later to the care-
free laughter of boys. I realised then
better than ever how much I was
fighting for.’

TRIAL BEFORE THE WORLD

He was troubled, too, by thoughts
about the future of the social class he
belonged to. In his journeys back to
England he had consorted with
desperate men ; ‘‘ Foreign Legionaries,
Communists and the like. Several
had fought in the Spanish Civil War,
some had already been condemned to
death by the Germans in North Africa.
it seemed often strange company for
the Brigade of Guards, and yet 1 was
certain that real courage was beyond
nationality and class, just as in France
to-day Jews and Communists and
priests and aristocrats all fight
together in the underground war. For
] feel that more than ever before our
clays to-day is on trial before the
world.”

And yet, in the long run, it was
these desperate men who caused him
to abandon the course he had taken
up. ‘A lot of my former companions,
J felt, possessed no loyalties anywhere,
and some had already played the same
kame in South America and the
Foreign Legion and Spain. And that
isa very selfish life in itself and appeals
more to hatred of the enemy than love
of one's country. An organisationthat
sets out to harness that hatred to its
own political ends treads a morally
dangerous path. Guerrilla fighting
often breeds a race of professional
mercenary soldiers who love war and
can only live in a violent, restless and,
destructive atmosphere.”

For these reasons, his work being
voluntary, he declined an invitation to
be dropped into France to organise
and command guerrillas in readiness
for the invasion. For one thing, he
thought a Frenchman should com-
mand the French, and recalled the
words of Lawrence of Arabia : I pray
God that no other’English lad reading
this story will from love of the glamour
of strangeness go out to prostitute
himself and his talents in the service
of another race.’ To this Hugh
Dormer adds: “It is a far higher ideal
to lead an ordinary life in an extra-
ordinary manner,” And so he asked
to be returned to his regiment, went
Overseas with them, and died. ‘God
kknows,’’ he wrote, when that last
phase of his journey began, “no man
ever set out more happily or gladly
before.... My soul is exhilarated like
a bird that would sing for ever till its
lungs burst. No man ever went out
to meet his fate more joyfully than I.”

A TALE OF THE SEA

Mr. Neil Campbell's Shadow and
Sun (Allen and Unwin, 15s.) is the
life story of a man who follawed the
sea as his profession. It begins in an
Irish manse, moves on to South

COUNTRY LIFE--MARCH 28,

Africa, where the author’s father took
a ministry, and thereafter is wholly of
the sea. The best part by far is the
early record of life in sait. The run to
Australia from South Africa, the mid-
winter passage round Cape Horn in a
raging gale, with both binnacle lights
biown out, ‘the half-drowned ship
storming through the night’; this is
lively writing and authentic through
and through.

“But it was the sea that grasped
my attention From the west, from
a wilderness of angered waters, came
that great cavalcade of enormous,
striding seas, stately and towering in
their orderly procession. Far as the
eye could see stretched that lonely,
wind-maddened waste of water—
great valleys bounded by swiftly-
moving, roaring surf-clad peaks which
leaped hungrily upon the barque.”’
And whence was this observation
made? From the yard of the fore
upper topsail! Can you imagine the
wind up there? Yes, indeed. This
author knows what he is writing
about.

—___—_e——.

PLUM’S LORD’S

OT sunshine poured down upon
ten thousand spectators; there
was a crowd in the pavilion, and a
scramble for lunch and tea at the
buffet outside, the scene of such
seufiies for many happy years. There
was the right sprinkling of muslin
frocks and gay parasols, and of
knowing urchins in grey fiannels and
club colours who instruct fathers and
uncles in the points of the game.
And when that dramatic moment
arrived, and the file of white figures
came from the pavilion...’ These
are not Sir Pelham Warner’s own
words, but they describe the opening
of a match against the Dominions in
which he took part towards the end
of the first World War and may be
used as a drop-scene for the pageantry
and drama of 158 years of cricket
depicted in Sir Pelham’s Lord’s 1787-
1946 (Harrap, 15s.}, one of the most
satisfying books for the cricketer ever
produced. Satisfying, of course, be-
cause of its erudition, the intimate
knowledge of its subject which it
everywhere discloses, because of the
fifty-one photogravure plates which
make a permanent personal possession
of so many of the most exciting pic-
tures and portraits in the M.C.C. col-
lection, If purple passages are as
few as merely casual anecdotes and
anything in the nature of a “‘revela-
tion” is anything but easy to find, it
must be remembered that Sir Pelham's
book sets out to be both authoritative
and comprehensive. It admirably
attains its object. Sir Petham’s readers
will turn with interest to what he has
to say regarding ‘Body Line,’’ and
will find him both firm and unbiased
in his views. W.E. B.

PICTURE EXHIBITIONS

HE selection of water-colours of
Fisherman's Country by Mr. Roy
Beddington which is now on view at
Arthur Ackermann’s Bond Street
gallery makes a most attractive
exhibition. Mr. Beddington, who
needs no introduction to readers ot
this paper, is an accomplished water-
colourist in the traditional style.
Sensitive to the moods of the sky and
to the changing conditions of atmos-
here, he chooses his colours with care:
fis style is precise and clean. He
records the faceta of the countryside in
their happiest aspects, and his charm-
ing notations serve to celebrate the
aaca hg pleasures of fishing.
ile Mr. Beddington finds his
themes in the decorative side of
Nature, Mr. Arnold-Forster, who
exhibits at Colnaghi’s Bond Street
gallery is at home on the mountain
tops, in cool drawings and water-
colours of crags and pane which
recall the 19th-century ee

1947

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and sunny.

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DIG FOR PLENTY! FARMING NOTES

farmers must learn to know is
LF.A.P, The letters stand for

the International Federation of Agri-
cultura] Producers, a body drawn from.
farmers’ organisations all over the
world, Their next conference to
establish a permanent constitution and
get down to work is to be heid from
May 12 to 23 at Scheveningen, near
The Hague. I have been invited to go
to hear what is said and see how this
lusty stepchild of the United Nations
behaves. It was a tempting idea at a
time when my farm was deep in snow,
slush and all other unpleasantness.
We can do no good now until April,
and then it will be drying winds we
shal! want if any amends are to be
made for the lost tillages of February
and March. The disc harrows may
prove the best weapon for getting a
tilth; there will be little enough time
for more ploughing. Much has to be
done before mid-May if the land is to
carry normal crops. With these
thoughts in mind I want all the more
to be able to get away to Holland. The
objects of LE.A.P. are toassist govern-
ments and international organisations
like F.A.Q. to interpret in practice an
enlightened policy for the production
and distribution of agricultural pro-
ducts and to assure adequate remuner-
ation to those who live by the land.
Governments working together
through }.A,O. may propound plans
which call for the close collaboration
of producers in all countries, and
I.F.A.P. is the body ready to organise
ractical farm support. I fancy that
ussia and the United States are more
inclined nowadays to act on their own
than through U.N. organisations, and
the scope of F.A.O. may be much more
limited than was thought a year ago.

Salt for Pigs
Horses. cattle and sheep like and
want salt, but pigs are always
said to do better without salt; indeed,
™many people declare that salt is poison
toa pig. I have been reading of the
experiences of Mr. A. M. Briggs, who
is one of the regional officers of the
Small Pig Keepers’ Council, the central
organisation that looks after the
interests of pig clubs. According to
the S.P.K.C. Bulletin he found that
salt ad lib. killed off two bacon pigs
which were so greedy for the salt, of
which they had been starved all their
tives, that they overdid their savoury,
but young pigs allowed to Jick block
salt through a slit in a metal container
seemed to benefit. Some American
experiments suggest that pigs make
better use of their other f if they
are allowed a little salt, and this may
well be so. But don’t let them overdo
the salt. On no account give the pigs
brine or liquids containing salt.

Labour Costs
Fo the present little more is likely
to be heard of claims for shorter
working weeks or higher wage rates.
In agriculture the standard week is 48
hours, but perforce this summer, with
such heavy arrears of work and the
imposition of D.S.T. from April to
August, the actual working week on
most farms cannot be far short of 60
hours. I am reminded, if the weekly
wage cheque was not constant evi-
dence, that the labour bill for regular
workers increased during the war years
from £2 15s. an acre to £5 2s. 4d. an
acre. These figures are taken from
The Farm Economist in which Mr. J.
Wrigley, of the Farm Economics
Branch of the University of Cam-
bridge, analyses the rising costs of
labour on 15 eastern counties farms
during the war. Labour costs
accounted for 27 per cent. of the gross
charges in 1940 and 36 per cent. in

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During the past year the Bishopsutton herd of
Messrs. J. T. and J. H. Mills at Bishop’s Sutton,
Alresford, Hants., has changed from hand-milking
to the Parlour method of machine-milking—with
no stripping. The herd average for the year is the
highest ever recorded. The 28 cows recorded for
the full year averaged 9,922 ibs.; 14 of them gave
ever 1,000 gallons. Six cows qualified for the
Shorthorn Society’s Diplomas.

The highest yields were those of Bishopsutton
Cherry 7th, that gave 13,854 Ibs., B. Duchess 26th,
13,621 ibs., and B. Milkmaid 13th, 13,087 Ibs. All
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WORLD FARMING
POLICIES

1945. Farmers have found it increas-
ingly difficult to obtain cowmen.
Workers dislike the long hours and
week-end work, and cowmen’s wages
have been on an especially high level.
Most cowmen have free houses and
allowances of free milk and the total
value of their perquisites was higher
than for any other class of worker, The
cowmen’s average weekly earni

were 53s. in 1940 and 93s. 10d. in 1945,
The figure to-day would be fully 106s.

Hopes for April

ALES and floods following on the

ice and snow wrote March off as
a dead loss in the arable calendar,
Some of my land lies high, and normal
rainfall runs off quickly, but the ice
had taken such a firm hold below the
surface that more than a week of real
thaw was needed to get the water
moving. The top three inches were
squelching mud and the pan of frozen
earth stopped drainage. So far as I
can see the autumn-sown wheat has
come through all right except for about
four acres. There the wheat looks
sickly and the individual plants come
away in the hand when they are gently
pulled. The stems bave rotted, This,
I imagine, is due to the repeated freez-
ing and thawing. It is a relief not to
have to re-sow the autumn wheat We
shall have to re-sow the Pioneer
barley. This went in rather late, and
although the young plant showed
strongly enough in the rows at the
beginning of December, the hard spell
was two severe a test. It will be
interesting to hear how others who
grow winter barley have fared this
season. I like winter barley because it
enables me to grow another autumn-
grown crop on land that is not really
fit to carry wheat, and moreover winter
barley comes fairly early to harvest.
So far I have been abie to get hold of
a combine harvester just at the time
when the winter barley was fit. This
year all our barley will be spring-sown
and most of it late sown. J am not
attempting to grow any early potatoes,
for which I am thankful. The ground
for the main crop potatoes is dunged
and ploughed, so it should not be
a@ great labour to get this ready for

lanting towards the end of April.

like to get my potatoes planted early
in April, but we must put the spring
sowing of grain first.

I see that the Ministry of Agri-
culture is carrying out a special survey
of the losses in food production due to
the bad weather since Christmas. If
the official observers are honest it will
be a very sorry tale. Losses of live-
stock as well as crops have been very
serious in many districts. One poor
man I know lost twenty fattening pigs
by drowning one night. The river rose
and when he came to feed his pigs in
the morning there was four feet of
water in the sties. Thun on some farms
the cows’ udders have been awash and
calves have been drowned. These are
minor instances compared with the
wholesale losses of sheep on the hills.
Grey Squirrels

'N Wiltshire the grey squirrels have
spread so fast that the county
agricultural executive committee have
adopted a scheme whereby two 12-bore
cartridges will be exchanged for every
squirrel tail presented to the County
Pests Officer. This is a departure from
the ordinary Ministry scheme of assist-
ing squirrel-shooting clubs by giving
a free issue of .410 cartridges. Two
12-bore cartridges and the value of the
uirrel skin, which should be at least

., seem a fair enough reward. Therate
of killing should be higher with 12-bore
guns, and many more farmers have

12-bores than have .410s.
CINCINNATUS.

THE ESTATE MARKET

INCREASED

COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH

VALUE

PAYMENTS

N certain circumstances, where the
compensation on the basis of value
as at March, 1939, envisaged under

the Town and Country Planning Bill is
clearly inadequate, an increased grant
of 45 or 60 per cent. will be allowed.
As far as it goes this decision by the
Treasury is welcome news to owners of
the properties affected, but accompany-
ing it is a warning that the calculation
of such payments will be a long and
complicated process, so that probably
very few settlements will have been
arrived at this year.

Most of the 200,000 claimants
will not get their money until some-
time thereafter, and then only “if
there should be no significant change
in the relevant circumstances during
this year,”’ It is useless to conjecture
what the nature of the change might
be, Official recognition has been
expressly given to the arguments that
the basis of valuation by reference
to the prices current in March, 1939,
should be abandoned.

A value payment for land with
buildings upon it does not in practice
contain anything in respect of the
value of the site. It represents only
the capital depreciation of the heredit-
ament due to the destruction of or
damage to the building. It will be
reckoned on the assumption of a sale
of the freehold with vacant possession,
Thus it accords broadly speaking with
the interest of an owner-occupier
under the Town and Country Planning
Act passed in 1944.

FLUCTUATIONS IN
PRICES
UILDING costs are not less than

100 per cent. higher than before
the war. The “major reason” given
for the initial adoption of the 1939
standard is that ‘‘in March, 1941, no
true market in real property really
existed.'' In many instances the
market price of property since that
year has amounted to as much as 300
per cent., a large proportion of which
rests in the building on the site, and
not on the site as such. Precise figures
cannot be computed to teach an all-
round percentage increase, so various
are the circumstances regarding every
hereditament. For sports grounds and
agricultural land (that is to say
“undeveloped ”' tand) it is intended to
grant an increase of 45 per cent. in the,
same way as for ‘‘ developed ’’ heredit-
aments.

LORD GEDDES TO SELL

ESTATE
ORD GEDDES OF ROLVEN-

DEN, who has recently been
compelled to retire from important
positions, including _—_ directorates
in the City, on account of ill
health, has up his mind to
dispose of his very beautiful old manor
house, Frensham, Rolvenden, on the
fringe of the Weald of Kent, and has
appointed Messrs. John D. Wood and
Ca, a8 his agents in the matter.

The actual spot is called The
Laync, and tradition bas it that, in
consequence of an outbreak of plague,
which occurred at a later period than
when that mysterious malady ravaged
England, an order was promulgated
to the affect that every building within
a mile of Rolvenden church should be
destroyed by fire. Rolvenden people
made a mags evacuation to a neigh-
bouring point known as The Layne,
and many of them never returned to
Rolvenden proper.

When Lord Geddes perceived the
Possibilities of Frensham it was in a
very neglected condition. To make
good the dilapidations was his first
task, then to restore the house and
adapt it to modern ideals of residential
comfort and luxury. For 20 years or

MARKET

more he was continually improving it,
and the grounds of 16 acres also
received much attention,

COMBINATION OF STYLES
RENSHAM is to-day a remarkable
example of the combination of early

building and work mainly of 17th-
century date. There is a substantial
trace of craftsmanship of a period as
remote as the 15th century and earlier,
The old oak timbering and the char-
acteristic constructional methods of
all the centuries that I‘renshatn has
weathered the storms are there
revealed, and make a most instructive
study.
HAIGH HALL, WIGAN, SOLD
fi Rae Corporation of Wigan has
made a contract with Lord
Crawford and Halcarres for the pur-
chase from him of his South Lan-
cashire seat, Haigh Hall, for £18,000.
With the Hail will pass 237 acres,
including the well-known gardens and
the Haigh plantations. The Corpor-
atiqn is considering to what various
purposes the property can be put.
Lord Uxbridge has sold the free-
hold of the South Kensington mansion,
No. 170, Queen's Gate, to the Imperial
College of Science and Technology.
His agents were Messrs. Lofts and
Warner.

SIMPSON’S TAVERN,
CORNHILL

HE lease is a long one (50 years

from 1913) of the Cornhill freehold,
Simpson's ‘Tavern, and the rent for
the next 16 years is only £500 a year.
The terms seem low for such a
gastronomic landmark of the City.
To-day conditions may be difficult,
but it was a place of plenitude
before the war and may become so
again in due course. The freehold, and
freehold ground rents of £4,850 a year
on shops and offices in Cornhill and
Birchin Lane, have just been offered
by Messrs. Farebrother, Ellis & Co.

Mr. Loslic P. Woolf conducted the
auction on behalf of the firm, and sold
the ground rents in four lots for a total
of £167,000. Simpson's evoked bids
up to £15,000, at which it was reserved,
but only for a few minutes, after
which a satisfactory private offer
took it out of the markct.

HAMPDEN HOUSE, MAYFAIR,
TO BE SOLD

HE Duke of Sutherland has con-

tracted to sell Hampden House,
Green Street, Mayfair. Messrs. Knight
Frank and Rutley acted for him. The
firm, with Messrs. Powell and Partner,
has sold New Lodge, a stone house
and 123 acres, in the Ashdown Forest
district of Hampshire, near Forest Row.

Freehold with possession, pro-
perty of 5 acres, between Rhyl and
Abergele, Denbighshire, now known as
North Wales Holiday Camp, has been
sold for £14,200, through Messrs.
Jackson-Stops and Staff.

Binnegar Hall, two miles from
Wareham, Dorset, and 20 acres, have
been sold through Messrs. Fox and
Sons, who state that the buyer
intends to use it as a private hotel.

SCOTTISH TRANSACTIONS
ORD ROLLO has instructed Mr.

Cc WwW. TL m to sell Duncrub
mansion and 527 acres, eight miles
from Perth.

General Groves has sold Grim-
synie, the mansion and 3,000 acres,
at Lochgoilhead, Argylishire, through
Messrs. Walker, Fraser and Steele.
The firm announce that Sir John
Gilmour, Bt., has bought the Border
estate of Carolside, 3,000 acres, at
Earlston, Berwickshire.

ARBITRR.

1947 579

28,

The Acid Test

Every schoolboy remembers that acids turn blue
litmus paper red, while alkalis turn red litmus
blue. But ‘acid’ and ‘alkali’ are not precise
words like ‘circular’ and ‘square’. Of two
liquids, one may be much more acid than the
other. It is often important to know exactly how
acid or alkaline a given liquid is, particularly in
canning, brewing, paper-making, sewage-
disposal and leather manufacture. Indeed, in
all branches of pure and applied chemistry one
of the commonest methods of test and control is
the estimation of what is known as hydrogen-ion
concentration. Litmus still has its uses, but the
modern chemist is able to get far more precise
information by means of a whole range of dyes,
which change colour dramatically at different
hydrogen-ion concentrations. When liquids are
too intense in colour, however, or have other
properties which interfere with the colour
changes, a pH-meter is used (pH is the symbol
for hydrogen-ion concentration). This apparatus
is illustrated above. It measures the electro-
motive force between the solution under test and
a standard glass electrode, and gives results of
great accuracy. The pH-meter

is another of the toolswhich en-

able the research chemist and

the British chemical industryto

place the resources of Nature

at the disposal of the Nation.

380 COUNTRY LIFE—MARCH 28, 1947

SPRING wro SU

Jersey frock for spring in sky-bine, dusty pink, or golden
beige, with enakeskia-and-white belt and a rolled collar.
Wolsey

of charming summer clothes were shown in London, clothes

that showed new trends in line, radiant colours and novelty
cottons, linens and rayons. There are cottons as fine as the finest
handkerchief linens, blistered cottons for suits and full-skirted
frocks, tayons as heavy as a hopsack and uncrushable, rayons
resembling surah silk or linen, and hand-blocked linens.

The styles for the young and slim are reminiscent of Tenniel’s
Alice, and the Walter Crane drawings to Mrs. Molesworth’'s
story-books with their quaint children in bonnets and pinafores.
Dorville show full-skirted, doll-waisted cotton frocks over full-
skirted white petticoats in crisp canvas. The tight bodices mould
the waistline and the skirts are gathered on all round, an inch or
so below the waist, as fully as they can be. Sleeveless bodices are
cut to an oval at the neckline and the shoulders framed with a frill.
Lilac pink Marcella, a thick cloque cotton, and fine cotton in
a navy-and-white shepherd's plaid make these story-book frocks.
Pinafore frills running over the shoulders and the scalloped pina-
fore tops of the Victorian nursery are shown by Laeta Ramage for
summer frocks in Moygashel, where necklines are either scooped
out or cut toa V. Sprigged sleeveless dresses are quaint looking
with their tiny waists, gathered skirts and fichus, and would look
enchanting on a slim young girl, The colours are late-Victorian,
the lilacs and pinks worn by mythical maidservants, the sprigs and
the nurse-cloth stripes associated with the period.

For the older women, styles are completely different, being
tailored and slender. Dorvilie make elbow-sleeved dresses in
white sharkskin and in navy-and-white duster-check rayons;
button them right down the front with a fly-fastening and give
them linen-webbing buckled belts, clay red with the check, cherry
red with the white. Skirts are definitely longer on these frocks;

Dercnes the snowy days of February, a series of collections

the mannequins s) dd them nearly at mid-calf. A white
Marcella suit wa fresh looking and would be an excellent
item to buy for an going abroad. It has broad pleats on the

outside of the shoulder# and deep pleats in the back of the jacket
(Continued on page 582)

eae

Suede Court shoe with a vamp curved low to the
instep. Ruseell and Bromley

Stitched, wriat-length
autde and kid town
gloves, Vivier Fréres

Sudde, with a calf tougue and tie and encased heel.
(Right) Walking shee for spring in beige calf with

leather heel.

Brevitt

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FL utp. taninan 44s =“ WIGMORE ST., LONDON, W.! — {0svennoms 10.)
Oxford St & Regent St. m1.

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